Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the strip_tags function in Ruby on Rails before 2.2.s, and 2.3.x before 2.3.5, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving non-printing ASCII characters, related to HTML::Tokenizer and actionpack/lib/action_controller/vendor/html-scanner/html/node.rb.

Remediation

References

CVE-2009-4214

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Severity

Medium

Classification

CVE-2009-4214 CWE-707

Tags

Missing Update Known Vulnerabilities