rails-html-sanitizer: Possible XSS vulnerability with certain configurations
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.1epss 0.4%
exploitation probability
0.4%top 66% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
rails-html-sanitizer is responsible for sanitizing HTML fragments in Rails applications. From 1.0.3 until 1.7.1, Rails::HTML::PermitScrubber restricted SVG reference elements in SVG_ALLOW_LOCAL_HREF only when they used xlink:href, even though browsers also accept the plain href attribute. Applications with non-default allowed tags that included SVG use or feImage elements could therefore permit external references; a same-origin external SVG referenced by use could execute scripts in the sanitized document's context, while feImage could load external images for tracking. Applications using the default allowed tags are not affected. This issue is fixed in version 1.7.1.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
Affected products
rails · rails-html-sanitizerReferences
https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/74dcb8053e6da9921246ce71b06ad9fd65b19586https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/pull/223https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/releases/tag/v1.7.1https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/security/advisories/GHSA-cj75-f6xr-r4g7