CVE-2018-3741

There is a possible XSS vulnerability in all rails-html-sanitizer gem versions below 1.0.4 for Ruby. The gem allows non-whitelisted attributes to be present in sanitized output when input with specially-crafted HTML fragments, and these attributes can lead to an XSS attack on target applications. This issue is similar to CVE-2018-8048 in Loofah. All users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the workarounds immediately.

• CWE-79
• CWE-79

• https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/f3ba1a839a35f2ba7f941c15e239a1cb379d56aeIssue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/f3ba1a839a35f2ba7f941c15e239a1cb379d56aeIssue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory

Published

Mar 30, 2018

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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