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 script or HTML via a javascript: URI.

Published: Jan 8, 2015
Updated: May 9, 2024
CVE: CVE-2012-6684
GHSA: GHSA-r23g-3qw4-gfh2
Severity: Low
Exploit:

CVSS v2:

Severity: Low
Score: 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CWEs:

CWE-79

OWASP TOP 10:

A7 - Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
redcloth / redcloth_library	-	4.2.9.x
debian / debian_linux	7.0	7.0.x
RedCloth	-	4.3.0

http://co3k.org/blog/redcloth-unfixed-xss-en
http://jgarber.lighthouseapp.com/projects/13054-redcloth/tickets/243-xss
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/50
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3168
https://gist.github.com/co3k/75b3cb416c342aa1414c

Vulnerability Database

290,301

CVE-2012-6684