CVE-2022-23519 HIGH

CVE-2022-23519: Possible XSS vulnerability with certain configurations of rails-html-sanitizer

Vendor Rails
Product rails-html-sanitizer
Weakness CWE-79 · XSS
Published December 14, 2022
Last update November 3, 2025

CVSS base score

7.2/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

What the vulnerability does

Description

rails-html-sanitizer is responsible for sanitizing HTML fragments in Rails applications. Prior to version 1.4.4, a possible XSS vulnerability with certain configurations of Rails::Html::Sanitizer may allow an attacker to inject content if the application developer has overridden the sanitizer's allowed tags in either of the following ways: allow both "math" and "style" elements, or allow both "svg" and "style" elements. Code is only impacted if allowed tags are being overridden. . This issue is fixed in version 1.4.4. All users overriding the allowed tags to include "math" or "svg" and "style" should either upgrade or use the following workaround immediately: Remove "style" from the overridden allowed tags, or remove "math" and "svg" from the overridden allowed tags.

Key dates

Disclosure timeline

December 14, 2022 CVE published
November 3, 2025 Record updated