Security context

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

astanin/python-tabulate

              master @ 268615a
            

Fixes

CVEs

MEDIUM

Peak severity

Highlights

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS): 1 prior fix. Scrutinize any change in this area.

tabulate.py: 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.

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS): Inadequate escaping of cell content during HTML table generation allowed arbitrary HTML and JavaScript injection via malicious cell values. Developers must ensure that all output writers serialize cell content safely using appropriate context-aware encoding.