cve/2018/CVE-2018-19787.md

### [CVE-2018-19787](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-19787)
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### Description

An issue was discovered in lxml before 4.2.5. lxml/html/clean.py in the lxml.html.clean module does not remove javascript: URLs that use escaping, allowing a remote attacker to conduct XSS attacks, as demonstrated by "j a v a s c r i p t:" in Internet Explorer. This is a similar issue to CVE-2014-3146.

### POC

#### Reference
No PoCs from references.

#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon