Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the rails-html-sanitizer gem 1.0.2 for Ruby on Rails 4.2.x and 5.x allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an HTML entity that is mishandled by the Rails::Html::FullSanitizer class
Published Feb 16, 2016
6.1
MEDIUMCVSS 3.0
EPSS 2.58%
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the rails-html-sanitizer gem 1.0.2 for Ruby on Rails 4.2.x and 5.x allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an HTML entity that is mishandled by the Rails::Html::FullSanitizer class.
Affected products
No data.
- ≤ 1.0.2
Running on/with
- 4.2.0
- 4.2.0
- 4.2.0
- 4.2.0
- 4.2.0
- 4.2.0
- 4.2.0
- 4.2.0
- 4.2.1
- 4.2.1
- 4.2.1
- 4.2.1
- 4.2.1
- 4.2.2
- 4.2.3
- 4.2.3
- 4.2.4
- 4.2.4
- 4.2.5
- 4.2.5
- 4.2.5
- 4.2.5.1
- 4.2.5.2
- 4.2.6
- 5.0.0
- 5.0.0
- 5.0.0
- 5.0.0
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.
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
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 (10 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 2.58% (0.02577) | 84.65th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 2.32% (0.02317) | 81.14th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 0.46% (0.00465) | 62.29th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 0.30% (0.00296) | 70.13th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Feb 8, 2024 | 0.30% (0.00296) | 68.47th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.30% (0.00296) | 64.45th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 1.78% (0.01776) | 76.86th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 23, 2023 | 1.78% (0.01776) | 76.81th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 1.78% (0.01776) | 74.78th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 1.78% (0.01776) | 53.99th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (12)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178046.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178064.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00014.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00024.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00053.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/25/12 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034816 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r9c2-cr39-c8g6 Advisory
- https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/49dfc1584c5b8e35a4ffabf8356ba3df025e8d3f x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/OU9ugTZcbjc/uksRkSxZEgAJ mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7579
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160128075017/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034816
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