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CVE-2011-0446

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-0446 describes multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the mail_to helper within Ruby on Rails versions prior to 2.3.11 and 3.x prior to 3.0.4. When JavaScript encoding is enabled, attackers can inject arbitrary web script or HTML through specially crafted name or email values. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and a potential impact of partial integrity compromise, with no confidentiality or availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.0.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.0.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0235 is in the 71st percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: actionpackFixed in: 2.3.11
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: actionpackFixed in: 3.0.4
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: actionviewFixed in: 2.3.11
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: actionviewFixed in: 3.0.4

Vendor Advisories (1)

rubygemsGHSA-75w6-p6mg-vh8jmedium

Rails actionpack gem vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

Oct 24, 2017

References

groups.google.com / group/rubyonrails-security/msg/365b8a23b76a6b4a
Patch
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057650.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055074.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055088.html
secunia.com / advisories/43274
secunia.com / advisories/43666
debian.org / security/2011/dsa-2247
securityfocus.com / bid/46291
securitytracker.com / id
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0587
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0877