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Server side cross-site scripting In rails-html-sanitizer

Description

rails-html-sanitizer Cross-site Scripting vulnerability Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in lib/rails/html/scrubbers.rb in the rails-html-sanitizer gem before 1.0.3 for Ruby on Rails 4.2.x and 5.x allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted CDATA node.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem
Component
Affected version
Patched versions

Aliases

1. CVE-2015-75802. NVD-2015-75803. OSV-DEBIAN-2015-75804. OSV-2015-75805. GCVE-2015-75806. SECURITY-TRACKER-CVE-2015-7580

References

1. https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/63903b0eaa6d2a4e1c91bc86008256c4c8335e782. https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer3. https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/uh--W4TDwmI/m_CVZtdbFQAJ4. https://web.archive.org/web/20160128075017/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/10348165. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00014.html6. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00024.html7. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00053.html8. http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/25/15

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