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Gitlab Gitlab: CVE-2019-5471: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Sep 9, 2019
Added
Sep 18, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An input validation and output encoding issue was discovered in the GitLab email notification feature which could result in a persistent XSS. This was addressed in GitLab 12.1.2, 12.0.4, and 11.11.6.

Solution

gitlab-gitlab-upgrade-latest
Title
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