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CVE-2009-4214

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2009-12-07 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Rubyonrails RailsRubyonrails Ruby On Rails

Weakness Type

CWE-79

References