CVE-2015-7579 in Ruby on Rails
Summary
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.
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Reservation
09/29/2015
Disclosure
02/15/2016
Status
Confirmed
Entries
VulDB provides additional information and datapoints for this CVE:
| ID | Vulnerability | CWE | Exp | Cou | CVE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80678 | Ruby on Rails rails-html-sanitizer cross site scripting | 79 | Unproven | Official fix | CVE-2015-7579 |