Name: CVE-2015-7579: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2016-02-16T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2015-7579, CWE-79, CVSS 6.1, EPSS 0.00166

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.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 6.1
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade ruby-rails-html-sanitizer	Jul 30, 2024	Feb 16, 2016
Suse	—	Upgrade ruby2.5-rubygem-rails-html-sanitizerUpgrade portus	Feb 9, 2016	Feb 9, 2016

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CVSS Details

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