Class weakness
Draft
CWE-75: Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection)
The product does not adequately filter user-controlled input for special elements with control implications.
30
Recorded CVEs
With this primary weakness
0
KEVs
In the CISA KEV catalog
Not rated
Likelihood of exploit
Per MITRE
Class
Abstraction
MITRE classification
Overview
CWE-75 (Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection)) is a class-level software weakness catalogued by MITRE in the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE). It describes a recurring type of mistake that can lead to exploitable security vulnerabilities.