Description
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: 2016-02-16
Score: 6.1 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-0299 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-r9c2-cr39-c8g6 rails-html-sanitizer Cross-site Scripting vulnerability
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Rubyonrails Html Sanitizer Rails
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T07:51:28.640Z

Reserved: 2015-09-29T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-7579

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Status : Modified

Published: 2016-02-16T02:59:03.000

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2015-7579

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