CVE-2024-53985

MEDIUM

Rails::HTML::Sanitizer <1.16.8 - XSS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 6.1
EPSS 0.0220
EPSS Percentile 84.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-79
Status published
Products (2)
rubygems/rails-html-sanitizer 1.6.0 - 1.6.1RubyGems
rubyonrails/rails_html_sanitizers 1.6.0
Published Dec 02, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026