CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-6416
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-12-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the simple_format helper in actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/text_helper.rb in Ruby on Rails 4.x before 4.0.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted HTML attribute.
Affected configurations
• rubyonrails rails (<= 4.0.1)
• rubyonrails rails 4.0.0
• rubyonrails rails 4.0.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/12/3/Rails_3_2_16_and_4_0_2_have_been_released/ weblog.rubyonrails.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64071 www.securityfocus.com
- https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/5ZI1-H5OoIM/ZNq4FoR2GnIJ groups.google.com
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/12/3/Rails_3_2_16_and_4_0_2_have_been_released/ weblog.rubyonrails.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64071 www.securityfocus.com
- https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/5ZI1-H5OoIM/ZNq4FoR2GnIJ groups.google.com