# CVE-2023-50727: Resque vulnerable to reflected XSS in Queue Endpoint

- Also known as: GHSA-R9MQ-M72X-257G
- Severity: CVSS 6.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.6.0
- Published: 2023-12-22 · Updated: 2025-04-23

## Affected

- resque: fixed in 2.6.0
- resque (RubyGems): fixed in 2.6.0

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on resque, upgrade to a fixed version (2.6.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/resque/resque/security/advisories/GHSA-r9mq-m72x-257g
- https://github.com/resque/resque/pull/1865
- https://github.com/resque/resque/commit/7623b8dfbdd0a07eb04b19fb25b16a8d6f087f9a

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