CVE-2015-7578 is a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the rails-html-sanitizer gem, affecting Ruby on Rails versions 4.2.x and 5.x. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) allows unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted tag attributes, requiring user interaction and potentially leading to low impact on confidentiality and integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, suggesting a low current threat level.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:html_sanitizer:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
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