CVE-2023-36823

HIGH

Sanitize <6.0.2 - XSS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Sanitize is an allowlist-based HTML and CSS sanitizer. Using carefully crafted input, an attacker may be able to sneak arbitrary HTML and CSS through Sanitize starting with version 3.0.0 and prior to version 6.0.2 when Sanitize is configured to use the built-in "relaxed" config or when using a custom config that allows `style` elements and one or more CSS at-rules. This could result in cross-site scripting or other undesired behavior when the malicious HTML and CSS are rendered in a browser. Sanitize 6.0.2 performs additional escaping of CSS in `style` element content, which fixes this issue. Users who are unable to upgrade can prevent this issue by using a Sanitize config that doesn't allow `style` elements, using a Sanitize config that doesn't allow CSS at-rules, or by manually escaping the character sequence `</` as `<\/` in `style` element content.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.1
EPSS 0.0042
EPSS Percentile 62.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Details

CWE
CWE-79
Status published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux 10.0
rubygems/sanitize 3.0.0 - 6.0.2RubyGems
sanitize_project/sanitize 3.0.0 - 6.0.2
Published Jul 06, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026