VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2009-4214

CVSS score4.3 NONE
EPSS probability3.02%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2009-12-07
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the strip_tags function in Ruby on Rails before 2.2.s, and 2.3.x before 2.3.5, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving non-printing ASCII characters, related to HTML::Tokenizer and actionpack/lib/action_controller/vendor/html-scanner/html/node.rb.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-79

Primary references