CVE-2011-2931

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.3
Exploit probability—
ProductRails
PublishedAug 29, 2011
First seenAug 29, 2011

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
rubyonrails rails2.0.0, 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, 2.3.11, 2.3.12, 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5, 3.0.6, 3.0.7, 3.0.8, 3.0.9, 3.0.10, 3.1.0—
rubyonrails ruby_on_rails3.0.4—

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