CVE-2023-50725: Resque

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

Resque is a Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing them on multiple queues, and processing them later. The following paths in resque-web have been found to be vulnerable to reflected XSS: "/failed/?class=<script>alert(document.cookie)</script>" and "/queues/><img src=a onerror=alert(document.cookie)>". This issue has been patched in version 2.2.1.

Affected products

• Resque Resque: before 2.2.1 (fixed in 2.2.1)

Published 2023-12-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.