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CVE-2020-26298

5.4 mediumEPSS 1.6%

Medium (5.4). EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in redcarpet 3.5.1.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.4 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS
1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 75% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs
CWE-74, CWE-79
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-q3wr-qw3g-3p4hRubyGemsredcarpet<3.5.13.5.1

References

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