XSS in Rubyonrails Rails
CVE-2011-4319
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the i18n translations helper method in Ruby on Rails 3.0.x before 3.0.11 and 3.1.x before 3.1.2, and the rails_xss plugin in Ruby on Rails 2.3.x, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to a translations string whose name ends with an "html" substring.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.016 (74.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 75th percentile — 74.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.016 · newest: 0.016 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Rubyonrails Rails — versions 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2
- Rubyonrails Ruby On Rails — versions 3.0.4
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- osvdb.org/77199 (vdb-entry)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/18/8 (mailing-list)
- weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/11/18/rails-3-0-11-has-been-released
- groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/2b61d70fb73c7…
- groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/c65c24fbc4b6dd82 (mailing-list)
- weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/11/18/rails-3-1-2-has-been-released
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71364 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/50722 (vdb-entry)