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CVE-2015-7580

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-02-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in lib/rails/html/scrubbers.rb in the rails-html-sanitizer gem before 1.0.3 for Ruby on Rails 4.2.x and 5.x allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted CDATA node.

Affected products

• rubyonrails Html Sanitizer: through 1.0.2

References

• 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/2016/01/25/15
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034816
• https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/63903b0eaa6d2a4e1c91bc86008256c4c8335e78
• https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/uh--W4TDwmI/m_CVZtdbFQAJ
• 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/2016/01/25/15
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034816

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