actionpack vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting · CVE-2013-4491 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

actionpack vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 24, 2017 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 25, 2023

Package

actionpack (RubyGems)

Affected versions

>= 3.0.0, < 3.2.16

>= 4.0.0, < 4.0.2

Patched versions

3.2.16

4.0.2

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.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 24, 2017

Reviewed Jun 16, 2020

Last updated Aug 25, 2023