CVE-2013-6416 — Cross-site Scripting in Project Actionpack

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting7 documents7 sources
Severity
4.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 53.43%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Actionpack Project ActionpackRubyonrails Rails
Timeline
PublishedDec 7
Latest updateOct 24

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the simple_format helper in actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/text_helper.rb in Ruby on Rails 4.x before 4.0.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted HTML attribute.

CVSS vector

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

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDrubyonrails/rails4.0.1+2
▶RubyGemsactionpack_project/actionpack4.0.0 — 4.0.2

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
OSV
actionpack Cross-site Scripting vulnerability↗2017-10-24
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GHSA
actionpack Cross-site Scripting vulnerability↗2017-10-24
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CVEList
CVE-2013-6416: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the simple_format helper in actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/text_helper↗2013-12-07
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
rubygem-actionpack: simple_format XSS↗2013-12-03
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Debian
CVE-2013-6416: rails - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the simple_format helper in actionpa...↗2013
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2013-6416 rubygem-actionpack: simple_format XSS↗2013-12-02
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CVE-2013-6416 — Cross-site Scripting | cvebase