GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems

GHSA-w37c-q653-qg95 actionpack Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

MEDIUM Published 2017-10-24 Modified 2023-07-26 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2013-6416
Ecosystem
RubyGems
Packages
actionpack
Severity
Moderate
Weaknesses
CWE-79
Reviewed
2020-06-16

Affected packages

• RubyGems actionpack: >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.2 → fixed in 4.0.2

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.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2013-6416 Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the simple_format helper in actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/text_helper.rb in Ruby on Rails… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

References