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CVE-2015-7580 Moderate

CVE-2015-7580

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.

Exploit probability 2.2%
Published February 16, 2016
Required by Not available
Last source change March 16, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

RubyGems rails-html-sanitizer

3 explicit affected versions

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities CVE-2015-7580

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.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities GHSA-ghqm-pgxj-37gq

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.

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05 / REFERENCES

Further evidence