Common Weakness Enumeration
CWE Definition / CWE-795
CWE-795: Only Filtering Special Elements at a Specified Location
The product receives data from an upstream component, but only accounts for special elements at a specified location, thereby missing remaining special elements that may exist before sending it to a downstream component.
Published:4 Dec 2009
Organization:MITRE
Modified:11 Dec 2025
Related Weakness
CWE-791: Incomplete Filtering of Special Elements
