Security context

What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.

apache/maven-javadoc-plugin

              master @ 9645d94
            

Fixes

CVEs

MEDIUM

Peak severity

Highlights

Reflected XSS: 1 prior fix. Scrutinize any change in this area.

AbstractJavadocMojo.java: most-fixed (1 issue). Treat as high-risk during review.

0 high-severity fixes in this history; regressions here are high-impact.

Recurring patterns

The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.

Reflected XSS: The plugin post-processes generated HTML files (such as index.html) to mitigate a known frame injection vulnerability (CVE-2013-1571) present in older Javadoc toolchains, which could allow attackers to inject malicious scripts via URLs.