Unscored severity · published Dec 7, 2009
CVE-2009-4214
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…
–
CVSS
3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.0% · higher than 87% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RA
Rails · Rubyonrails
2.3.2; 2.3.3; 2.3.4; 0.9.1; 0.9.2; 0.9.3; +34 more · source: NVD
RO
Ruby ON Rails · Rubyonrails
through 2.1.2; 0.5.0; 0.5.5; 0.5.6; 0.5.7; 0.6.0; +5 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4214
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-4214
Patch
http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/bfe032858077bb2946abe25e95e485ba6da86bd5
groups.google.com
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/4d4f71f2aef4c0ab?pli=1
lists.apple.com
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html
Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/37446
Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/38915
More from Rails
7.5
CVE-2019-5418
Rails Ruby on Rails Path Traversal Vulnerability
7.5
CVE-2016-0752
Directory traversal vulnerability in Action View in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.22.1, 4.0.x and 4.1.x before 4.1.14.1, 4.2.x before 4.2.5.1, and 5.x before 5.0.0.beta1.1 allows…
7.5
CVE-2014-0130
Directory traversal vulnerability in actionpack/lib/abstract_controller/base.rb in the implicit-render implementation in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.18, 4.0.x before 4.0.5, and 4.1.x…
9.8
CVE-2026-33195
Rails Active Storage has possible Path Traversal in DiskService
9.8
CVE-2024-28103
Action Pack is a framework for handling and responding to web requests