A fast, safe and extensible Markdown to (X)HTML parser

CVE History

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CVE-2020-262985.4 MEDIUM3.5 LOW
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.