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Ruby on Rails Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting) Vulnerability - CVE-2011-2931 - Vulnerability Database
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Ruby on Rails Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting) Vulnerability - CVE-2011-2931

Medium
Reference: CVE-2011-2931
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2931
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 helper in actionpack/lib/action_controller/vendor/html-scanner/html/node.rb in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.13 3.0.x before 3.0.10 and 3.1.x before 3.1.0.rc5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a tag with an invalid name.