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Applying securrity patch to fix XSS vulnerability #1133

Closed cocococosti closed 4 years ago

cocococosti commented 4 years ago

This PR applies a patch sent by Edx to fix a possible cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in edx-platform studio course and library page.

Without this patch, it was possible to execute scripts if they are present in error messages on courses and library page, as a result, the malicious script can access any cookies, session tokens, or other sensitive information retained by the browser.