VYPR
Medium severity6.1NVD Advisory· Published Sep 7, 2016· Updated May 6, 2026

CVE-2016-6316

CVE-2016-6316

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Action View in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.2.22.3, 4.x before 4.2.7.1, and 5.x before 5.0.0.1 might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via text declared as "HTML safe" and used as attribute values in tag handlers.

Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
actionviewRubyGems
>= 3.0.0, < 3.2.22.33.2.22.3
actionviewRubyGems
>= 4.0.0, < 4.2.7.14.2.7.1
actionviewRubyGems
>= 5.0.0, < 5.0.0.15.0.0.1

Affected products

41

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

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