Macro in MathJax running untrusted Javascript within a web browser
Moderate severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
Jul 27, 2018
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Sep 11, 2023
Description
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Jul 27, 2018
Reviewed
Jun 16, 2020
Last updated
Sep 11, 2023
MathJax version prior to version 2.7.4 contains a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the
\unicode{}macro that can result in Potentially untrusted Javascript running within a web browser. This attack appear to be exploitable via The victim must view a page where untrusted content is processed using Mathjax. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.7.4 and later.References