CVE-2011-0446
mediumpriority · track · 18EPSS 0.024 · 84 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the mail_to helper in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.11, and 3.x before 3.0.4, when javascript encoding is used, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted (1) name or (2) email value.
cvss
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 3.7–4.3
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affected products (25)
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advisories (1)
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- GHSA-75w6-p6mg-vh8jRails actionpack gem vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting2017-10-24ghsa · osvUS
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the `mail_to` helper in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.11, and 3.x before 3.0.4, when javascript encoding is used, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted (1) name or (2) email value.
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references (34)
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- http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/365b8a23b76a6b4a?dmode=source&output=gplaincnnvd
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057650.htmlcnnvd
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055074.htmlcnnvd
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055088.htmlcnnvd
- http://rubyonrails.org/downloadPatchcnnvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43274cnnvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43666cnnvd
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2247cnnvd
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