CVE-2015-3226

mediumpriority · track · 18EPSS 0.028 · 86 %ileEUUS
grimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
2.78% (86th) EPSS
CVSS 4.3 · medium
Is it mine?
34 products
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Who says so?
4 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in json/encoding.rb in Active Support in Ruby on Rails 3.x and 4.1.x before 4.1.11 and 4.2.x before 4.2.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted Hash that is mishandled during JSON encoding.

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cvss

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4.3
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 3.7–4.3

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 2.9
v2.03.7lowAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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affected products (34)

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advisories (1)

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  • GHSA-vxvp-4xwc-jpp6activesupport Cross-site Scripting vulnerability2017-10-24ghsa · osvUS

    Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in `json/encoding.rb` in Active Support in Ruby on Rails 4.1.x before 4.1.11 and 4.2.x before 4.2.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted Hash that is mishandled during JSON encoding.

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also known as (3)

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published 2015-07-26modified 2026-06-17
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references (16)

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