CVE-2007-3227

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-06-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the to_json (ActiveRecord::Base#to_json) function in Ruby on Rails before edge 9606 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script via the input values.

Affected products

Ruby on Rails: 1.1.5

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195315
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8371
http://osvdb.org/36378
http://pastie.caboo.se/65550.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/25699
http://secunia.com/advisories/27657
http://secunia.com/advisories/27756
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-17.xml
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/10/12/rails-1-2-5-maintenance-release
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/10/5/rails-1-2-4-maintenance-release
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_24_sr.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24161

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