Vulnerability CVE-2012-6684
Published: 2015-01-07   Modified: 2015-01-08

Description:
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the RedCloth library 4.2.9 for Ruby and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a javascript: URI.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Low
RedCloth Cross Site Scripting
Kousuke Ebihara
12.12.2014

Type:

CWE-79

 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Redcloth -> Redcloth library 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
http://co3k.org/blog/redcloth-unfixed-xss-en
http://jgarber.lighthouseapp.com/projects/13054-redcloth/tickets/243-xss
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/50
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3168
https://gist.github.com/co3k/75b3cb416c342aa1414c
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