CVE-2013-1857

EPSS 0.63%

actionpack Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

Published: 10/24/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:GHSA-j838-vfpq-fmf2DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1857

Description

The sanitize helper in lib/action_controller/vendor/html-scanner/html/sanitizer.rb in the Action Pack component in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.18, 3.0.x and 3.1.x before 3.1.12, and 3.2.x before 3.2.13 does not properly handle encoded : (colon) characters in URLs, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted scheme name, as demonstrated by including a : sequence.

Affected packages (2)

References (13)