CVE-2011-2931

Rails < 2.3.13 - XSS

Title source: rule

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the strip_tags helper in actionpack/lib/action_controller/vendor/html-scanner/html/node.rb in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.13, 3.0.x before 3.0.10, and 3.1.x before 3.1.0.rc5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a tag with an invalid name.

References (15)

[Patch] http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/fd41ab62966e0fd1?dmode=source&output=gplain

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/45921

[Patch] http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/8/16/ann-rails-3-1-0-rc6

[Patch] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/17/1

[Patch] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/19/11

[Patch] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/20/1

[Patch] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/13

[Patch] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/5

[Patch] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731436

[Patch] https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/586a944ddd4d03e66dea1093306147594748037a

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065109.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065137.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065212.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2301

[Mailing List] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/14

Scores

EPSS 0.0081

EPSS Percentile 74.0%

Classification

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Affected Products (50)

rubyonrails/rails

rubyonrails/rails

rubyonrails/rails

rubyonrails/rails

rubyonrails/rails

rubyonrails/rails

rubyonrails/rails

rubyonrails/rails

rubyonrails/rails

rubyonrails/rails

rubyonrails/rails

rubyonrails/rails

rubyonrails/rails

rubyonrails/rails

rubyonrails/rails

... and 35 more

Timeline

Published Aug 29, 2011

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026