CVE-2024-53986: rails-html-sanitizer has XSS vulnerability with certain configurations

December 2, 2024 (updated December 3, 2024)

There is a possible XSS vulnerability with certain configurations of Rails::HTML::Sanitizer 1.6.0 when used with Rails >= 7.1.0.

Versions affected: 1.6.0
Not affected: < 1.6.0
Fixed versions: 1.6.1

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-638j-pmjw-jq48
github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer
github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/f02ffbb8465e73920b6de0da940f5530f855965e
github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/security/advisories/GHSA-638j-pmjw-jq48
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53986

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