Common Weakness Enumeration
CWE Definition / CWE-796
CWE-796: Only Filtering Special Elements Relative to a Marker
The product receives data from an upstream component, but only accounts for special elements positioned relative to a marker (e.g. at the beginning/end of a string; the second argument), 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-795: Only Filtering Special Elements at a Specified Location
