CVE-2015-7579
rails-html-sanitizer Cross-site Scripting vulnerability
6.1
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.17%
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.
How to fix CVE-2015-7579
To remediate CVE-2015-7579, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 1.0.3-1 or later
- —upgrade to 1.0.3 or later
Is CVE-2015-7579 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 1.0.3-1
- from 0, < 1.0.3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |