Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting actionpack package, versions <2.3.0 >=2.4, <3.1.0 >=3.3, <4.0.2
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-ACTIONPACK-20120
- published 2 Dec 2013
- disclosed 2 Dec 2013
- credit Kevin Reintjes
How to fix?
Upgrade actionpack to version 2.3.0, 3.1.0, 4.0.2 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) via the simple_format helper in Ruby on Rails meaning that any user provided HTML attributes will not be escaped correctly.
Note:
The simple_format helper converts user supplied text into html text which is intended to be safe for display. A change made to the implementation of this helper means that any user provided HTML attributes will not be escaped correctly. As a result of this error, applications which pass user-controlled data to be included as html attributes will be vulnerable to an XSS attack.