XSS in Rubyonrails Rails

CVE-2013-6416

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the simple_format helper in actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/text_helper.rb in Ruby on Rails 4.x before 4.0.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted HTML attribute.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.020 (78.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Rubyonrails Rails — versions 4.0.0, 4.0.1
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
secalert@redhat.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)