Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting i18n package, versions < 0.6.6, >= 0.6< 0.5.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (66th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-I18N-20124
  • published2 Dec 2013
  • disclosed2 Dec 2013
  • creditPeter McLarnan

Introduced: 2 Dec 2013

CVE-2013-4492  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

i18n is a Ruby gem that provides internationalization support.

Affected versions of this gem contain a vulnerability in exceptions.rb which allows remote attackers to inject scripts via the I18n::MissingTranslation call, which can contain user input which fails to escape the keys.

Details

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