CVE-2024-53985

low

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.

References

https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/security/advisories/GHSA-w8gc-x259-rc7x

https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/cd18b0ef00aad1d4a9e1c5d860cd23f80f63c505

https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/b0220b8850d52199a15f83c472d175a4122dd7b1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-12-02

Updated: 2025-08-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 2.3

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

Severity: Low

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00107