What is CVE-2024-32464?

CVE-2024-32464 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Rails, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2024-06-04.

How severe is CVE-2024-32464?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

XSS in Rails

CVE-2024-32464

Action Text brings rich text content and editing to Rails. Instances of ActionText::Attachable::ContentAttachment included within a rich_text_area tag could potentially contain unsanitized HTML. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.1.3.4 and 7.2.0.beta2.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2024-06-04 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (35.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 35th percentile — 35.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Rails — versions >= 7.1.0, < 7.1.3.4, = 7.2.0.beta1
Rubyonrails Rails — versions 7.2.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

github.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-prjp-h48f-jgf6 (Third Party Advisory)
github.com/rails/rails/commit/e215bf3360e6dfe1497c1503a495e384ed6b0995 (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-32464?: CVE-2024-32464 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Rails, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2024-06-04.
How severe is CVE-2024-32464?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.