PT-2022-7454 · Ruby+6 · Loofah+6

Haqpl · Published 2022-12-13 · Updated 2026-03-13 · CVE-2022-23518

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions rails-html-sanitizer versions 1.0.3 through 1.4.3

Description The issue is related to the sanitization of HTML fragments in Rails applications when used in combination with Loofah. It allows a remote attacker to conduct cross-site scripting attacks via data URIs.

Recommendations Upgrade to rails-html-sanitizer version 1.4.4 or later. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of Loofah version 2.1.0 or later until the issue is resolved.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2023-1337

ALT-PU-2023-4269

ALT-PU-2024-7813

ALT-PU-2024-7815

BDU:2024-06513

CVE-2022-23518

DLA-3566-1

DLA-3902-1

GHSA-MCVF-2Q2M-X72M

OPENSUSE-SU-2023_3714-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12769-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14175-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15125-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2026:10361-1

RHSA-2023:2097

RLSA-2023:2097

SUSE-SU-2023:3534-1

SUSE-SU-2023:3714-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Astra Linux

Loofah

Red Os

Rocky Linux

Suse

Rails-Html-Sanitizer

References · 49

• 🔥 https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/23xxx/CVE-2022-23518.json · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rails-html-sanitizer/CVE-2022-23518.yml · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/issues/135 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-3566-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-23518 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2024-06513 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-23518 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2026:10361-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23518 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-23518 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2025:15125-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-3902-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-23518 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2023:3714-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:12769-1 · Vendor Advisory