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CVE-2011-0446
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the mail_to helper in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.11, and 3.x before 3.0.4, when…
Medium4.3EPSS 2.4%
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Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the mail_to helper in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.11, and 3.x before 3.0.4, when javascript encoding is used, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted (1) name or (2) email value.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.4% · top 16% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsactionpackGHSA-75w6-p6mg-vh8j (opens in a new tab)
- RubyGemsactionviewGHSA-75w6-p6mg-vh8j (opens in a new tab)
References (11)
- ADV-2011-0587 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- FEDORA-2011-2138 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 46291 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- DSA-2247 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- FEDORA-2011-4358 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 43274 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1025064 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- [rubyonrails-security] 20110209 Potential XSS Problem with mail_to :encode => :javascript (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- ADV-2011-0877 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- FEDORA-2011-2133 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 43666 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-75w6-p6mg-vh8j (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .