CVE-2024-53986

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. A possible 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 where the "math" and "style" elements are both explicitly allowed. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.6.1.

CVSS v3 6.1 MEDIUM

6.1^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

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/f02ffbb8465e73920b6de0da940f5530f855965e	Patch
https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/security/advisories/GHSA-638j-pmjw-jq48	Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

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

History

15 Aug 2025, 18:54

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References	~~() https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/f02ffbb8465e73920b6de0da940f5530f855965e -~~	() https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/f02ffbb8465e73920b6de0da940f5530f855965e - Patch
References	~~() https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/security/advisories/GHSA-638j-pmjw-jq48 -~~	() https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/security/advisories/GHSA-638j-pmjw-jq48 - Vendor Advisory
First Time		Rubyonrails Rubyonrails rails Html Sanitizers
CVSS	v2 : ~~unknown~~ v3 : ~~unknown~~	v2 : unknown v3 : 6.1
CPE		cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails_html_sanitizers:1.6.0:::::rails::

Information

Published : 2024-12-02 22:15

Updated : 2025-08-15 18:54

NVD link : CVE-2024-53986

Mitre link : CVE-2024-53986

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2024-53986

JSON object : View

Products Affected

rubyonrails

rails_html_sanitizers

CWE

CWE-79

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

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