CVE-2020-36624
A vulnerability was found in ahorner text-helpers up to 1.0.x.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.62%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
A vulnerability was found in ahorner text-helpers up to 1.0.x. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file lib/text_helpers/translation.rb. The manipulation of the argument link leads to use of web link to untrusted target with window.opener access. The attack can be initiated remotely. Upgrading to version 1.1.0 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is 184b60ded0e43c985788582aca2d1e746f9405a3. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-216520.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.62% probability · 50th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-1022
- Affected
- texthelpers project/texthelpers
- Source
- cna@vuldb.com
EPSS 0.6% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://github.com/ahorner/text-helpers/commit/184b60ded0e43c985788582aca2d1e746f9405a3Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ahorner/text-helpers/pull/19Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ahorner/text-helpers/releases/tag/v1.1.0Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://vuldb.com/?id.216520Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ahorner/text-helpers/commit/184b60ded0e43c985788582aca2d1e746f9405a3Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ahorner/text-helpers/pull/19Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ahorner/text-helpers/releases/tag/v1.1.0Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://vuldb.com/?id.216520Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.