CVE-2022-23515 (GCVE-0-2022-23515)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-14 13:23 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:45
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Title
Improper neutralization of data URIs may allow XSS in Loofah
Summary
Loofah is a general library for manipulating and transforming HTML/XML documents and fragments, built on top of Nokogiri. Loofah >= 2.1.0, < 2.19.1 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting via the image/svg+xml media type in data URIs. This issue is patched in version 2.19.1.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
flavorjones loofah Affected: >= 2.1.0, < 2.19.1
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