actionview Cross-site Scripting vulnerability (GHSA-pc3m-v286-2jwj)
Published: 2017-10-24T18:33:35Z
Aliases: CVE-2016-6316
Severity: MODERATE · CWE: CWE-79

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Action View in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.2.22.3, 4.x before 4.2.7.1, and 5.x before 5.0.0.1 might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via text declared as "HTML safe" and used as attribute values in tag handlers.

Affected packages:
package: ecosystem: RubyGems
name: actionview
ranges: type: ECOSYSTEM
events: introduced: 3.0.0
fixed: 3.2.22.3
database_specific: last_known_affected_version_range: <= 3.2.22.2
package: ecosystem: RubyGems
name: actionview
ranges: type: ECOSYSTEM
events: introduced: 4.0.0
fixed: 4.2.7.1
database_specific: last_known_affected_version_range: <= 4.2.7
package: ecosystem: RubyGems
name: actionview
ranges: type: ECOSYSTEM
events: introduced: 5.0.0
fixed: 5.0.0.1
versions: 5.0.0