cve/2006/CVE-2006-5442.md

### [CVE-2006-5442](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5442)
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### Description

ViewVC 1.0.2 and earlier does not specify a charset in its HTTP headers or HTML documents, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks that inject arbitrary UTF-7 encoded JavaScript code via a view.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1755

#### Github
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