CVE-2020-36290: Atlassian Confluence Data Center

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Livesearch macro in Confluence Server and Data Center before version 7.4.5, from version 7.5.0 before 7.6.3, and from version 7.7.0 before version 7.7.4 allows remote attackers with permission to edit a page or blog to inject arbitrary HTML or JavaScript via a cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the page excerpt functionality.

Affected products

• Atlassian Confluence Data Center: before 7.4.5 (fixed in 7.4.5); from 7.5.0, before 7.6.3 (fixed in 7.6.3); from 7.7.0, before 7.7.4 (fixed in 7.7.4)
• Atlassian Confluence Server: before 7.4.5 (fixed in 7.4.5); from 7.5.0, before 7.6.3 (fixed in 7.6.3); from 7.7.0, before 7.7.4 (fixed in 7.7.4)

Published 2022-07-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.