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CVE-2024-39308: RailsAdmin Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in the list view

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-07-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

RailsAdmin is a Rails engine that provides an interface for managing data. RailsAdmin list view has the XSS vulnerability, caused by improperly-escaped HTML title attribute. Upgrade to 3.1.3 or 2.2.2 (to be released).

Affected products

• https://github.com/sferik rails_admin ruby gem: before 2.3.0; from 3.0.0 before 3.1.3 — fixed in 2.3.0, 3.1.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: https://github.com/sferik rails_admin ruby gem 2.3.0, 3.1.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/railsadminteam/rails_admin/commit/b5a287d82e2cbd1737a1a01e11ede2911cce7fef
• https://github.com/railsadminteam/rails_admin/commit/d84b39884059c4ed50197cec8522cca029a17673
• https://github.com/railsadminteam/rails_admin/issues/3686
• https://github.com/railsadminteam/rails_admin/security/advisories/GHSA-8qgm-g2vv-vwvc
• https://rubygems.org/gems/rails_admin/versions/2.3.0
• https://rubygems.org/gems/rails_admin/versions/3.1.3
• https://github.com/railsadminteam/rails_admin/commit/b5a287d82e2cbd1737a1a01e11ede2911cce7fef
• https://github.com/railsadminteam/rails_admin/commit/d84b39884059c4ed50197cec8522cca029a17673
• https://github.com/railsadminteam/rails_admin/issues/3686
• https://github.com/railsadminteam/rails_admin/security/advisories/GHSA-8qgm-g2vv-vwvc
• https://rubygems.org/gems/rails_admin/versions/2.3.0
• https://rubygems.org/gems/rails_admin/versions/3.1.3

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