CVE-2023-50725 (GCVE-0-2023-50725)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-12-22 20:02 – Updated: 2024-08-02 22:16
VLAI
Title
Resque vulnerable to reflected XSS in resque-web failed and queues lists
Summary
Resque is a Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing them on multiple queues, and processing them later. The following paths in resque-web have been found to be vulnerable to reflected XSS: "/failed/?class=<script>alert(document.cookie)</script>" and "/queues/><img src=a onerror=alert(document.cookie)>". This issue has been patched in version 2.2.1.
Severity
6.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
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