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CVE-2024-53985

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.

Published

2024-12-02T22:15:11.197

Last Modified

2025-08-15T19:41:49.843

Status

Analyzed

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 6.1 (MEDIUM)

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-79

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	rubyonrails	rails_html_sanitizers	1.6.0	Yes

References

https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/b0220b8850d52199a15f83c472d175a4122dd7b1 Patch ([email protected])
https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/cd18b0ef00aad1d4a9e1c5d860cd23f80f63c505 Patch ([email protected])
https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/security/advisories/GHSA-w8gc-x259-rc7x Vendor Advisory ([email protected])