CVE-2020-36624

mediumpriority · track · 24EPSS 0.006 · 50 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.62% (50th) EPSS

CVSS 6.1 · medium

Is it mine?

3 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.16.1mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 2.7

v3.16.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Lsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.16.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Lsecondary · cna@vuldb.comexploitability 2.8 · impact 3.4

v3.16.1mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:Nsecondary · OSV

v3.15.6mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-1022USCWE-1022USCWE-266US

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

ahorner text-helpers≤ 1.0enisa_euvdEU
texthelpers project texthelpers< 1.1.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:texthelpers_project:texthelpers:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
RubyGems text_helpers1.1.0 → 1.2.0osvUSpkg:gem/text_helpers

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-74hc-57m5-83chtext_helpers uses web link to untrusted target with window.opener access2022-12-22ghsa · osvUS
A vulnerability was found in ahorner text-helpers 1.1.0/1.1.1. 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 1.2.0 can 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.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2022-12-22modified 2026-06-17

references (14)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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