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GSD-2012-6684
Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2012-02-29 00:00Details
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.
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