GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems
GHSA-r23g-3qw4-gfh2 RedCloth Cross-site Scripting vulnerability
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2012-6684
- Ecosystem
- RubyGems
- Packages
- RedCloth
- Severity
- Moderate
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
- Reviewed
- 2020-06-16
Affected packages
• RubyGems RedCloth: < 4.3.0 → fixed in 4.3.0
Description
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.
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Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2012-6684 Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the RedCloth library 4.2.9 for Ruby and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
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