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CVE-2020-36624: ahorner text-helpers translation.rb reverse tabnabbing

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-12-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-1022

Description

A vulnerability was found in ahorner text-helpers up to 1.0.x. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file lib/text_helpers/translation.rb. The manipulation of the argument link leads to use of web link to untrusted target with window.opener access. The attack can be initiated remotely. Upgrading to version 1.1.0 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is 184b60ded0e43c985788582aca2d1e746f9405a3. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-216520.

Affected products

• Texthelpers Project Texthelpers: before 1.1.0 — fixed in 1.1.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Texthelpers Project Texthelpers 1.1.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/ahorner/text-helpers/commit/184b60ded0e43c985788582aca2d1e746f9405a3
• https://github.com/ahorner/text-helpers/pull/19
• https://github.com/ahorner/text-helpers/releases/tag/v1.1.0
• https://vuldb.com/?id.216520
• https://github.com/ahorner/text-helpers/commit/184b60ded0e43c985788582aca2d1e746f9405a3
• https://github.com/ahorner/text-helpers/pull/19
• https://github.com/ahorner/text-helpers/releases/tag/v1.1.0
• https://vuldb.com/?id.216520

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