GHSA-vfpf-xmwh-8m65

Duplicate Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-52c5-vh7f-26fx. This link is maintained to preserve external references.

Original Description

Impact

The prosemirrortohtml gem is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting

(XSS) attacks through malicious HTML attribute values. While tag

content is properly escaped, attribute values are not, allowing

attackers to inject arbitrary JavaScript code.

Who is impacted:

• Any application using prosemirrortohtml to convert ProseMirror

  documents to HTML

• Applications that process user-generated ProseMirror content are

  at highest risk

• End users viewing the rendered HTML output could have malicious

 JavaScript executed in their browsers

Attack vectors include:

• href attributes with javascript: protocol:

  <a href="javascript:alert(document.cookie)">

• Event handlers: <div onclick="maliciousCode()">
• onerror attributes on images: <img src=x onerror="alert('XSS')">
• Other HTML attributes that can execute JavaScript

Patches

A fix is currently in development. Users should upgrade to version

0.2.1 or later once released.

The patch escapes all HTML attribute values using CGI.escapeHTML

to prevent injection attacks.

Workarounds

Until a patched version is available, users can implement one or

more of these mitigations:

1. Sanitize output: Pass the HTML output through a sanitization

   library like Sanitize or

   Loofah:

   html = ProsemirrorToHtml.render(document)
   safe_html = Sanitize.fragment(html, Sanitize::Config::RELAXED)

1. Implement Content Security Policy (CSP): Add strict CSP

   headers to prevent inline JavaScript execution:

   Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self'; script-src 'self'

1. Input validation: If possible, validate and sanitize

   ProseMirror documents before conversion to prevent malicious

   content from entering the system.

References

• Vulnerable code: https://github.com/etaminstudio/prosemirrortohtml/blob/ea8beb32f6c37f29f042ba4155ccf18504da716e/lib/prosemirrortohtml.rb#L249
• OWASP XSS Prevention Cheat Sheet