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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 inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an HTML entity that is mishandled by the Rails::Html::FullSanitizer class.

Published

2016-02-16T02:59:03.000

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 6.1 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

  • Access Vector: NETWORK
  • Access Complexity: MEDIUM
  • Authentication: NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact: NONE
Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses
  • Type: Primary
    CWE-79
Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Application rubyonrails html_sanitizer ≤ 1.0.2 Yes
Application rubyonrails rails 4.2.0 No
Application rubyonrails rails 4.2.0 No
Application rubyonrails rails 4.2.0 No
Application rubyonrails rails 4.2.0 No
Application rubyonrails rails 4.2.0 No
Application rubyonrails rails 4.2.0 No
Application rubyonrails rails 4.2.0 No
Application rubyonrails rails 4.2.0 No
Application rubyonrails rails 4.2.1 No
Application rubyonrails rails 4.2.1 No
Application rubyonrails rails 4.2.1 No
Application rubyonrails rails 4.2.1 No
Application rubyonrails rails 4.2.1 No
Application rubyonrails rails 4.2.2 No
Application rubyonrails rails 4.2.3 No
Application rubyonrails rails 4.2.3 No
Application rubyonrails rails 4.2.4 No
Application rubyonrails rails 4.2.4 No
Application rubyonrails rails 4.2.5 No
Application rubyonrails rails 4.2.5 No
Application rubyonrails rails 4.2.5 No
Application rubyonrails rails 4.2.5.1 No
Application rubyonrails rails 4.2.5.2 No
Application rubyonrails rails 4.2.6 No
Application rubyonrails rails 5.0.0 No
Application rubyonrails rails 5.0.0 No
Application rubyonrails rails 5.0.0 No
Application rubyonrails rails 5.0.0 No
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