GHSA-x83m-pf6f-pf9gMediumCVSS 6.1

hibernate-validator Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

Published
November 7, 2024
Last Modified
September 12, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

A flaw was found in hibernate-validator's 'isValid' method in the org.hibernate.validator.internal.constraintvalidators.hv.SafeHtmlValidator class, which can be bypassed by omitting the tag ending in a less-than character. Browsers may render an invalid html, allowing HTML injection or Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS) attacks.

🎯 Affected products2

  • maven/org.hibernate.validator:hibernate-validator:< 6.2.0.Final
  • maven/org.hibernate:hibernate-validator:< 6.2.0.Final

🔗 References (4)