CVE-2019-17022

critical
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
9.5

Description

When pasting a &lt;style&gt; tag from the clipboard into a rich text editor, the CSS sanitizer does not escape &lt; and &gt; characters. Because the resulting string is pasted directly into the text node of the element this does not result in a direct injection into the webpage; however, if a webpage subsequently copies the node's innerHTML, assigning it to another innerHTML, this would result in an XSS vulnerability. Two WYSIWYG editors were identified with this behavior, more may exist. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 68.4 and Firefox < 72.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
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-2019-17022

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202001-1

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202001-4

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed68.4.1-1
debian debiansidfixed72.0-1
debian debianbookwormfixed68.4.0esr-1
debian debianbullseyefixed68.4.0esr-1
debian debianforkyfixed68.4.0esr-1
debian debiantrixiefixed68.4.0esr-1

References

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