CVE-2008-7248

mediumpriority · track · 40EPSS 0.081 · 95 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · functional

Likely / severe?

8.08% (95th) EPSS

CVSS 6.8 · medium

Is it mine?

8 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

Ruby on Rails 2.1 before 2.1.3 and 2.2.x before 2.2.2 does not verify tokens for requests with certain content types, which allows remote attackers to bypass cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection for requests to applications that rely on this protection, as demonstrated using text/plain.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.06.8mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 6.4

v2.06.1mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:POCsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-20USprimaryCWE-20US

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-33402Ruby on Rails 2.3.5 - 'protect_from_forgery' Cross-Site Request Forgeryfunctional · exploit_db

affected products (8)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
rubyonrails rails= 2.1.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 2.1.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 2.1.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 2.2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 2.2.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
RubyGems actionpack2.1.0 → 2.1.3osvUSpkg:gem/actionpack
RubyGems actionpack2.2.0 → 2.2.2osvUSpkg:gem/actionpack

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-8fqx-7pv4-3jwmImproper Input Validation in actionpack2017-10-24ghsa · osvUS
Ruby on Rails 2.1 before 2.1.3 and 2.2.x before 2.2.2 does not verify tokens for requests with certain content types, which allows remote attackers to bypass cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection for requests to applications that rely on this protection, as demonstrated using text/plain.

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2009-12-16modified 2026-06-16

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references (20)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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