CVE-2024-53985 - CVE House
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Status published Low CVE-2024-53985

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

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

rails-html-sanitizer
Vulnerable Versions:
>= 1.6.0, < 1.6.1

Timeline

Official Publish: December 2nd, 2024
Last Modified: December 11th, 2024
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

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