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HIGH 7.5 RubyGems

Sanitize vulnerable to Improper Input Validation and Cross-site Scripting

GHSA-7f42-p84j-f58p · CVE-2018-3740

Published · Modified

Description

When Sanitize <= 4.6.2 is used in combination with libxml2 >= 2.9.2, a specially crafted HTML fragment can cause libxml2 to generate improperly escaped output, allowing non-whitelisted attributes to be used on whitelisted elements.

This can allow HTML and JavaScript injection, which could result in XSS if Sanitize's output is served to browsers.

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