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CVE-2022-23520

MEDIUM
6.1CVSS
Published: 2022-12-14
Updated: 2025-11-03
AI Analysis

Description

rails-html-sanitizer is responsible for sanitizing HTML fragments in Rails applications. Prior to version 1.4.4, there is a possible XSS vulnerability with certain configurations of Rails::Html::Sanitizer due to an incomplete fix of CVE-2022-32209. Rails::Html::Sanitizer may allow an attacker to inject content if the application developer has overridden the sanitizer's allowed tags to allow both "select" and "style" elements. Code is only impacted if allowed tags are being overridden. This issue is patched in version 1.4.4. All users overriding the allowed tags to include both "select" and "style" should either upgrade or use this workaround: Remove either "select" or "style" from the overridden allowed tags. NOTE: Code is _not_ impacted if allowed tags are overridden using either the :tags option to the Action View helper method sanitize or the :tags option to the instance method SafeListSanitizer#sanitize.

CVSS Metrics

Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector
network
Complexity
low
Privileges
none
User Action
required
Scope
changed
Confidentiality
low
Integrity
low
Availability
none
Weaknesses
CWE-79CWE-79

Metadata

Primary Vendor
RUBYONRAILS
Published
12/14/2022
Last Modified
11/3/2025
Source
NIST NVD
Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.

Affected Products

rubyonrails : rails_html_sanitizersdebian : debian_linux

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