MEDIUM
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the mail_to helper in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.11, and 3.x before 3.0.4, when javascript encoding is used, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted (1) name or (2) email value
Published Feb 14, 2011
4.3
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 2.35%
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the mail_to helper in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.11, and 3.x before 3.0.4, when javascript encoding is used, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted (1) name or (2) email value.
Affected products
No data.
OR
- 2.0.0
- 2.0.0
- 2.0.0
- 2.0.1
- 2.0.2
- 2.0.4
- 2.1.0
- 2.1.1
- 2.1.2
- 2.2.0
- 2.2.1
- 2.2.2
- 2.3.2
- 2.3.3
- 2.3.4
- 2.3.9
- 2.3.10
- 3.0.0
- 3.0.0
- 3.0.0
- 3.0.0
- 3.0.0
- 3.0.0
- 3.0.0
- 3.0.1
- 3.0.1
- 3.0.2
- 3.0.2
- 3.0.3
- 3.0.4
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
4.3 MEDIUM NVD
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
2.35% 0.02350
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
EPSS probability 0.02350
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (9 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 2.35% (0.02350) | 83.07th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 2.35% (0.02350) | 81.42th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 0.57% (0.00570) | 66.63th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 0.29% (0.00295) | 70.12th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Feb 8, 2024 | 0.29% (0.00295) | 68.45th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.29% (0.00295) | 64.44th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 1.96% (0.01955) | 78.47th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 1.96% (0.01955) | 76.59th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 1.96% (0.01955) | 55.71th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
Weaknesses (1)
References (22)
- http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/365b8a23b76a6b4a?dmode=source&output=gplain mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTPatch
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057650.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055074.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055088.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43274 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43666 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2247 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46291 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025064 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0587 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0877 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-75w6-p6mg-vh8j Advisory
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/abe97736b8316f1b714cac56c115c0779aa73217
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/e3dd2107c57a8efaaea5d61cf8da65f7444760b2
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionpack/CVE-2011-0446.yml
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionview/CVE-2011-0446.yml
- https://groups.google.com/g/rubyonrails-security/c/8CpI7egxX4E/m/SmtqtyOKWzYJ
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-0446
- https://web.archive.org/web/20111225083933/http://secunia.com/advisories/43274
- https://web.archive.org/web/20111225083933/http://secunia.com/advisories/43666
- https://web.archive.org/web/20120527023027/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46291
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200812054342/http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025064
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Feb 14, 2011
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Jan 13, 2011
Link CVE-2011-0446
CISA Vulnrichment
GHSA-75W6-P6MG-VH8J Updated n/a