GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems

GHSA-r9c2-cr39-c8g6 rails-html-sanitizer Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

MEDIUM Published 2017-10-24 Modified 2023-01-24 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2015-7579
Ecosystem
RubyGems
Packages
rails-html-sanitizer
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-79
Reviewed
2020-06-16

Affected packages

• RubyGems rails-html-sanitizer: < 1.0.3 → fixed in 1.0.3

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the rails-html-sanitizer gem 1.0.2 for Ruby on Rails 4.2.x and 5.x allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an HTML entity that is mishandled by the `Rails::Html::FullSanitizer` class.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2015-7579 Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the rails-html-sanitizer gem 1.0.2 for Ruby on Rails 4.2.x and 5.x allows remote attackers to… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness

References