Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the strip_tags function in Ruby on Rails before 2.2.s, and 2.3.x before 2.3.5, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving non-printing ASCII characters, related to HTML::Tokenizer and actionpack/lib/action_controller/vendor/html-scanner/html/node.rb.
Published: 2009-12-07
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: 1.6% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2301-1 rails security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2301-2 rails regression
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-0207 Moderate severity vulnerability that affects rails
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c Moderate severity vulnerability that affects rails
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Rubyonrails Rails Ruby On Rails
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T06:54:09.938Z

Reserved: 2009-12-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2009-4214

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2009-12-07T17:30:00.217

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2009-4214

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2009-11-27T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-4214 - Bugzilla

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