CVE-2013-4491 — Cross-site Scripting in Project Actionpack

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting8 documents7 sources
Severity
4.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.7%
top 27.65%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Actionpack Project ActionpackRubyonrails RailsRubyonrails Ruby ON Rails
Timeline
PublishedDec 7
Latest updateOct 24

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/translation_helper.rb in the internationalization component in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.2.16 and 4.x before 4.0.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted string that triggers generation of a fallback string by the i18n gem.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:N/I:P/A:NExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶NVDrubyonrails/rails4.0.1+47
▶RubyGemsactionpack_project/actionpack3.0.0 — 3.2.16+1

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
actionpack vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting↗2017-10-24
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OSV
actionpack vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting↗2017-10-24
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CVEList
CVE-2013-4491: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/translation_helper↗2013-12-07
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OSV
CVE-2013-4491: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/translation_helper↗2013-12-07
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
rubygem-actionpack: i18n missing translation XSS↗2013-12-03
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Debian
CVE-2013-4491: rails - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/t...↗2013
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2013-4491 rubygem-actionpack: i18n missing translation XSS↗2013-12-02
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