In short
- CVE-2015-7579 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.1) vulnerability affecting rails-html-sanitizer, html sanitizer (rubyonrails).
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.6%, higher than 85.2% of all vulnerabilities.
- Fix: update to 1.0.3 or later.
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the rails-html-sanitizer gem 1.0.2 for Ruby on Rails 4.2.x and 5.x allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an HTML entity that is mishandled by the Rails::Html::FullSanitizer class.
NVD description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the rails-html-sanitizer gem 1.0.2 for Ruby on Rails 4.2.x and 5.x allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an HTML entity that is mishandled by the Rails::Html::FullSanitizer class.
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