Vulnerabilites related to vmg - redcarpet
CVE-2020-26298 (GCVE-0-2020-26298)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-01-11 00:00
Modified
2025-02-13 16:27
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
Summary
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. This is fixed in version 3.5.1 by the referenced commit.
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