GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems

GHSA-v5jg-558j-q67c actionpack Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

MEDIUM Published 2017-10-24 Modified 2023-05-12 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2011-2931
Ecosystem
RubyGems
Packages
actionpack
Severity
Moderate
Weaknesses
CWE-79
Reviewed
2020-06-16

Affected packages

• RubyGems actionpack: >= 2.0.0, < 2.3.13 → fixed in 2.3.13 • RubyGems actionpack: >= 3.0.0, < 3.0.10 → fixed in 3.0.10

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the `strip_tags` helper in `actionpack/lib/action_controller/vendor/html-scanner/html/node.rb` in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.13, 3.0.x before 3.0.10, and 3.1.x before 3.1.0.rc5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a tag with an invalid name.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2011-2931 Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the strip_tags helper in actionpack/lib/action_controller/vendor/html-scanner/html/node.rb in… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

References