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The error messages included some of these URL params,\nresulting in a cross site scripting attack (CVE-2015-4707).\n\nPOST requests exposed via the IPython REST API are vulnerable to\ncross-site request forgery (CSRF). Web pages on different domains can make\nnon-AJAX POST requests to known IPython URLs, and IPython will honor them.\nThe user's browser will automatically send IPython cookies along with the\nrequests. The response is blocked by the Same-Origin Policy, but the\nrequest isn't (CVE-2015-5607).\n\nThe Mageia 5 package has been patched to fix these issues.  The Mageia 4\npackage wasn't vulnerable to CVE-2015-4707, but it has been updated and\npatched to fix CVE-2015-5607.\n","status":"published","published":"2015-08-03T20:55:18Z","modified":"2026-04-16T06:24:24.734065966Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:49:39.792687Z"},{"id":"PYSEC-2017-46","description":"Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in IPython before 3.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving JSON error messages and the /api/notebooks path.","status":"published","published":"2017-09-20T18:29:00Z","modified":"2023-11-08T03:57:55.719283Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:52:51.645172Z"}]}}