CVE-2011-0446

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-02-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the mail_to helper in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.11, and 3.x before 3.0.4, when javascript encoding is used, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted (1) name or (2) email value.

Affected products

Ruby on Rails: 2.0.0, 2.0.0-rc1, 2.0.0-rc2, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.4 (+24)

References

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/365b8a23b76a6b4a?dmode=source&output=gplain
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057650.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055074.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055088.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/43274
http://secunia.com/advisories/43666
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2247
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46291
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025064
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0587
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0877
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/365b8a23b76a6b4a?dmode=source&output=gplain

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