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CVE-2022-23515

Published: Dec 14, 2022

Modified: Nov 3, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

6.1

MEDIUM

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
flavorjones	loofah	affected `>= 2.1.0, < 2.19.1`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

References

https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/security/advisories/GHSA-228g-948r-83gx

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/issues/101

x_refsource_MISC

https://hackerone.com/reports/1694173

x_refsource_MISC

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00011.html

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