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Ruby on Rails Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting) Vulnerability - CVE-2009-4214 - Vulnerability Database
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Ruby on Rails Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting) Vulnerability - CVE-2009-4214

Medium
Reference: CVE-2009-4214
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4214
Title: Ruby on Rails Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting) Vulnerability
Overview:

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.