CVE-2023-50727 (GCVE-0-2023-50727)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-12-22 20:10 – Updated: 2025-04-23 16:17
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Resque vulnerable to reflected XSS in Queue Endpoint
Summary
Resque is a Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing them on multiple queues, and processing them later. Reflected XSS issue occurs when /queues is appended with /"><svg%20onload=alert(domain)>. This issue has been patched in version 2.6.0.
Severity
6.3 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-01-02 16:36 UTC
CWE
- CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/resque/resque/security/advisor… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/resque/resque/pull/1865 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/resque/resque/commit/7623b8dfb… | x_refsource_MISC |
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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