CWE-80: Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS)

The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters such as <, >, and & that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to a downstream component that processes web pages.

Published:19 Jul 2006

Organization:MITRE

Modified:11 Dec 2025

Related Weakness

CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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