CVE-2024-53986: low-severity vulnerability in rails-html-sanitizer
Possible XSS vulnerability with certain configurations of rails-html-sanitizer 1.6.0
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8Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 2.3epss 0.5%
exploitation probability
0.5%top 61% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
rails-html-sanitizer is responsible for sanitizing HTML fragments in Rails applications. There is a possible XSS vulnerability with certain configurations of Rails::HTML::Sanitizer 1.6.0 when used with Rails >= 7.1.0. A possible XSS vulnerability with certain configurations of Rails::HTML::Sanitizer may allow an attacker to inject content if HTML5 sanitization is enabled and the application developer has overridden the sanitizer's allowed tags where the "math" and "style" elements are both explicitly allowed. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.6.1.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
Affected products
rails · rails-html-sanitizerRelated CVEs — rails-html-sanitizer
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