Ruby on Rails Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Vulnerability (CVE-2013-6416)

Description

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.

Remediation

References

CVE-2013-6416

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Severity

Medium

Classification

CVE-2013-6416 CWE-707