MEDIUM

GHSA-r23g-3qw4-gfh2

RedCloth Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

Quick fix

GHSA-r23g-3qw4-gfh2 — RedCloth: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

bundle update RedCloth

Details

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the RedCloth library 4.2.9 for Ruby and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a `javascript:` URI.

Are you affected?

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Affected packages

RubyGems/RedCloth

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 4.3.0

Fixbundle update RedCloth

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6684[ADVISORY]
https://co3k.org/blog/redcloth-unfixed-xss-en[WEB]
https://gist.github.com/co3k/75b3cb416c342aa1414c[WEB]
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/RedCloth/CVE-2012-6684.yml[WEB]
https://web.archive.org/web/20150128115714/http://jgarber.lighthouseapp.com/projects/13054-redcloth/tickets/243-xss[WEB]
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/50[WEB]
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3168[WEB]