CVE-2022-23515
MEDIUM6.1EPSS 0.32%Improper neutralization of data URIs may allow XSS in Loofah
Published: 12/13/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
Loofah is a general library for manipulating and transforming HTML/XML documents and fragments, built on top of Nokogiri. Loofah >= 2.1.0, < 2.19.1 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting via the image/svg+xml media type in data URIs. This issue is patched in version 2.19.1.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/ruby-loofahfrom 0, < 2.7.0+dfsg-1+deb11u1
- RubyGems/loofah>= 2.1.0, < 2.19.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
References (11)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23515
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-23515
- PATCHhttps://github.com/flavorjones/loofah
- WEBhttps://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/commit/415677f3cf7f9254f42f811e784985cd63c7407f
- WEBhttps://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/issues/101
- WEBhttps://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/security/advisories/GHSA-228g-948r-83gx
- WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/loofah/CVE-2022-23515.yml
- WEBhttps://github.com/w3c/svgwg/issues/266
- WEBhttps://hackerone.com/reports/1694173
- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00011.html
- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00044.html