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CVE-2013-4491

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
07/12/2013
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/translation_helper.rb in the internationalization component in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.2.16 and 4.x before 4.0.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted string that triggers generation of a fallback string by the i18n gem.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
4.30
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:-:*:*:*:*:*:* 4.0.1 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.0.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.0.0:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.0.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.0.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:4.0.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:beta4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:rc:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.1:pre:*:*:*:*:*:*

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