Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-7579

Title: Rubyonrails Html Sanitizer Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-7579.

CWE Category CWE-79
Published Date Feb 16, 2016
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 6.1 CVSS v3.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
2.59%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-7579: 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.

Impacted Vendors

R
rubyonrails 2
T
typo3 1

Reference Links

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178046.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178064.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00014.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00024.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00053.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/25/12 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034816 https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/49dfc1584c5b8e35a4ffabf8356ba3df025e8d3f https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/OU9ugTZcbjc/uksRkSxZEgAJ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178046.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178064.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00014.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00024.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00053.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/25/12 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034816 https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/49dfc1584c5b8e35a4ffabf8356ba3df025e8d3f https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/OU9ugTZcbjc/uksRkSxZEgAJ
CVSS v3.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
6.1
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
REQUIRED
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
CHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.3
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-7579 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction REQUIRED
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.