CVE-2023-50724: Resque

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Resque (pronounced like "rescue") is a Redis-backed library for creating background jobs, placing those jobs on multiple queues, and processing them later. resque-web in resque versions before 2.1.0 are vulnerable to reflected XSS through the current_queue parameter in the path of the queues endpoint. This issue has been patched in version 2.1.0.

Affected products

• Resque Resque: before 2.1.0 (fixed in 2.1.0)

Published 2023-12-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.