Unsanitized xlink:href attribute in SVG <use> tags in Firefox < 102

Unsanitized xlink:href attribute in SVG <use> tags in Firefox < 102

CVE-2022-34473 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

The HTML Sanitizer should have sanitized the <code>href</code> attribute of SVG <code>&lt;use&gt;</code> tags; however it incorrectly did not sanitize <code>xlink:href</code> attributes. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 102.

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