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CVE-2020-26298

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8 EPSS 1.57% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2021-01-11 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

AI analysis pending.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

GitHub PoC Links
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CVE
CVE-2020-26298
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.8
EPSS
1.57%

Original NVD Description

Redcarpet is a Ruby library for Markdown processing. In Redcarpet before version 3.5.1, there is an injection vulnerability which can enable a cross-site scripting attack. In affected versions no HTML escaping was being performed when processing quotes. This applies even when the `:escape_html` option was being used. This is fixed in version 3.5.1 by the referenced commit.