CVE-2015-7578

6.1 MEDIUM

Published: February 16, 2016 Modified: May 06, 2026

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the rails-html-sanitizer gem before 1.0.3 for Ruby on Rails 4.2.x and 5.x allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted tag attributes.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178046.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178064.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00014.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00024.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00053.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/25/11

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034816

Source: secalert@redhat.com

https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/297161e29a3e11186ce4c02bf7defc088bf544d4

Source: secalert@redhat.com

https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/uh--W4TDwmI/ygHE7hlZEgAJ

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178046.html