CVE-2024-53985CWE-79

Possible XSS vulnerability with certain configurations of rails-html-sanitizer 1.6.0

Low · published December 2, 2024

CVSS v4.0
2.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
47.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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 and Nokogiri < 1.15.7, or 1.16.x < 1.16.8. The 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 with both "math" and "style" elements or both both "svg" and "style" elements. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.6.1.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
2.3 · LOW
Vector
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
EPSS
0.00597 · 47.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Published
2024-12-02T21:15Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 02 DEC 21:15Z
    Possible XSS vulnerability with certain configurations of rails-html-sanitizer 1.6.0
    cvelistv5