The serializer in html5lib before 0.99999999 might allow remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by leveraging mishandling of special characters in attribute values, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-9909.
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9910
Reference (s):
- BID:95132
- URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95132
- https://github.com/html5lib/html5lib-python/commit/9b8d8eb5afbc066b7fac9390f5ec75e5e8a7cab7
- https://github.com/html5lib/html5lib-python/issues/11
- https://github.com/html5lib/html5lib-python/issues/12