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CVE-2016-6316: Possible XSS Vulnerability

September 7, 2016 (updated August 8, 2019)

There is a possible XSS vulnerability in Action View. Text declared as “HTML safe” will not have quotes escaped when used as attribute values in tag helpers.

References

  • groups.google.com/forum/

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 4.0.0.alpha before 4.2.7.1, all versions starting from 5.0.0.alpha before 5.0.0.1

Fixed versions

  • 4.2.7.1
  • 5.0.0.1

Solution

Upgrade to latest or use workaround; see provided link.

Impact 6.1 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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Weakness

  • CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Source file

gem/actionview/CVE-2016-6316.yml

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