CVE-2013-6416

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 the simple_format helper in actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/text_helper.rb in Ruby on Rails 4.x before 4.0.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted HTML attribute.

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::::::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

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::::::

CVE-2013-6416

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools