CVE-2018-1999024

medium
Published 2018-07-27 · Modified 2023-11-08
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

MathJax version prior to version 2.7.4 contains a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the \unicode{} macro that can result in Potentially untrusted Javascript running within a web browser. This attack appear to be exploitable via The victim must view a page where untrusted content is processed using Mathjax. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.7.4 and later.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-1999024

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed2.7.4-1
debian debianbookwormfixed2.7.4+dfsg-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.7.4+dfsg-1
debian debianforkyfixed2.7.4+dfsg-1
debian debiansidfixed2.7.4+dfsg-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.7.4+dfsg-1

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
npm npmmathjax<2.7.42.7.4

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.