gsd-2020-26298
Vulnerability from gsd
Modified
2021-01-11 00:00
Details
Redcarpet is a Ruby library for Markdown processing. In Redcarpet before version 3.5.1, there is an injection vulnerability which can enable a cross-site scripting attack. In affected versions no HTML escaping was being performed when processing quotes. This applies even when the `:escape_html` option was being used.
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CVE-2020-26298


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