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Status published
Medium
CVE-2022-23515
Improper neutralization of data URIs may allow XSS in Loofah
Vulnerability Description
Loofah is a general library for manipulating and transforming HTML/XML documents and fragments, built on top of Nokogiri. Loofah >= 2.1.0, < 2.19.1 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting via the image/svg+xml media type in data URIs. This issue is patched in version 2.19.1.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
Affected Vendor
flavorjones
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loofah
Vulnerable Versions:
>= 2.1.0, < 2.19.1
Timeline
Official Publish:
December 14th, 2022
Last Modified:
November 3rd, 2025
Added to House:
July 21st, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N