CVE-2011-2931 in Ruby on Rails

Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the strip_tags helper in actionpack/lib/action_controller/vendor/html-scanner/html/node.rb in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.13, 3.0.x before 3.0.10, and 3.1.x before 3.1.0.rc5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a tag with an invalid name.

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• Reservation: 07/27/2011
• Disclosure: 08/29/2011
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-79 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 4.3
• EPSS: 0.00813
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-2931
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2931
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2011-2931/