Severity: Important Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation
Versions Affected: Sling XSS Protection API 1.0.0 Description: The method XSS.getValidXML() uses an insecure SAX parser to validate the input string, which allows for XXE [0] attacks in all scripts which use this method to validate user input, potentially allowing an attacker to read sensitive data on the filesystem, perform same-site-request-forgery (SSRF), port-scanning behind the firewall or DoS the application. [0] https://www.owasp.org/index.php/XML_External_Entity_(XXE)_Processing Mitigation: Users should upgrade to version 1.0.12 or later of the XSS Protection API module.
