CVE-2015-7580
MEDIUM6.1EPSS 0.16%rails-html-sanitizer Cross-site Scripting vulnerability
Published: 10/24/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in lib/rails/html/scrubbers.rb in the rails-html-sanitizer gem before 1.0.3 for Ruby on Rails 4.2.x and 5.x allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted CDATA node.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/ruby-rails-html-sanitizerfrom 0, < 1.0.3-1
- RubyGems/rails-html-sanitizerfrom 0, < 1.0.3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
References (10)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7580
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-7580
- WEBhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00014.html
- WEBhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00024.html
- WEBhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00053.html
- WEBhttps://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer
- WEBhttps://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/63903b0eaa6d2a4e1c91bc86008256c4c8335e78
- WEBhttps://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/uh--W4TDwmI/m_CVZtdbFQAJ
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20160128075017/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034816
- WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/25/15