Bug 1302021 (CVE-2015-7580)

Summary: CVE-2015-7580 rubygem-rails-html-sanitizer: Possible XSS vulnerability in the white list sanitizer
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: osoukup, strzibny, vondruch
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Fixed In Version: rubygem-rails-html-sanitizer 1.0.3 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-01-26 14:26:58 UTC 
XSS vulnerability in the white list sanitizer in the rails-html-sanitizer gem was reported. Carefully crafted strings can cause user input to bypass the sanitization in the white list sanitizer which will can lead to an XSS attack.

External References:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/rubyonrails-security/uh--W4TDwmI/m_CVZtdbFQAJ
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2016/1/25/Rails-5-0-0-beta1-1-4-2-5-1-4-1-14-1-3-2-22-1-and-rails-html-sanitizer-1-0-3-have-been-released/