Possible XSS vulnerability with certain configurations of rails-html-sanitizer 1.6.0
Summary
Possible XSS vulnerability with certain configurations of rails-html-sanitizer 1.6.0
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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", "mtext", "table", and "style" elements are allowed and either either "mglyph" or "malignmark" are allowed. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.6.1.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-53988 ruby-rails-html-sanitizer
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- patch github.com