CVE-2009-4214

rubygem-actionpack: XSS weakness in strip_tags

Published Dec 7, 2009 CVSS 2.0 · 4.3 Medium EPSS 3.0% KEV · Not listed
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

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2301-1 rails security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2301-2 rails regression
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-0207 Moderate severity vulnerability that affects rails
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c Moderate severity vulnerability that affects rails
Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 6:54 AM
Reserved
Dec 7, 2009, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Dec 7, 2009, 5:30 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 11:13 PM
Severity
Low
Public date
Nov 27, 2009, 12:00 AM