Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the strip_tags function in Ruby on Rails before 2.2.s, and 2.3.x before 2.3.5, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving non-printing ASCII characters, related to HTML::Tokenizer and actionpack/lib/action_controller/vendor/html-scanner/html/node.rb.

Remediation

References

CVE-2009-4214

Related Vulnerabilities

MySQL CVE-2012-0491 Vulnerability (CVE-2012-0491)

Oracle Database Server Resource Management Errors Vulnerability (CVE-2007-5506)

Apache Tomcat Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls Vulnerability (CVE-2011-3190)

PHP Address Book Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') Vulnerability (CVE-2012-1911)

Moodle Improper Authentication Vulnerability (CVE-2013-2245)

Severity

Medium

Classification

CVE-2009-4214 CWE-707

Tags

Missing Update Known Vulnerabilities