CVE-2012-6684

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-01-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

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.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0
Redcloth Library: through 4.2.9

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
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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