CVE-2024-53985

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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.

6.1 /10

CVSS v3.0 : MEDIUM

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 2.7

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

Scope CHANGED

References
Link Resource
https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/b0220b8850d52199a15f83c472d175a4122dd7b1 Patch
https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/cd18b0ef00aad1d4a9e1c5d860cd23f80f63c505 Patch
https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/security/advisories/GHSA-w8gc-x259-rc7x Vendor Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails_html_sanitizers:1.6.0:*:*:*:*:rails:*:*
History

15 Aug 2025, 19:41

Type Values Removed Values Added
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown 		v2 : unknown
v3 : 6.1
First Time Rubyonrails rails Html Sanitizers
Rubyonrails
CPE cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails_html_sanitizers:1.6.0:*:*:*:*:rails:*:*
References () https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/cd18b0ef00aad1d4a9e1c5d860cd23f80f63c505 - () https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/cd18b0ef00aad1d4a9e1c5d860cd23f80f63c505 - Patch
References () https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/security/advisories/GHSA-w8gc-x259-rc7x - () https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/security/advisories/GHSA-w8gc-x259-rc7x - Vendor Advisory
References () https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/b0220b8850d52199a15f83c472d175a4122dd7b1 - () https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/b0220b8850d52199a15f83c472d175a4122dd7b1 - Patch

02 Dec 2024, 22:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
New CVE
Information

Published : 2024-12-02 22:15

Updated : 2025-08-15 19:41

NVD link : CVE-2024-53985

Mitre link : CVE-2024-53985

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Products Affected

rubyonrails

  • rails_html_sanitizers
CWE
CWE-79

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')