VYPR
Moderate severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 4, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2025

view_component Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

CVE-2024-21636

Description

view_component is a framework for building reusable, testable, and encapsulated view components in Ruby on Rails. Versions prior to 3.9.0 and 2.83.0 have a cross-site scripting vulnerability that has the potential to impact anyone rendering a component directly from a controller with the view_component gem. Note that only components that define a #call method (i.e. instead of using a sidecar template) are affected. The return value of the #call method is not sanitized and can include user-defined content. In addition, the return value of the #output_postamble methodis not sanitized, which can also lead to cross-site scripting issues. Versions 3.9.0 and 2.83.0 have been released and fully mitigate both the #call and the #output_postamble vulnerabilities. As a workaround, sanitize the return value of #call.

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Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
view_componentRubyGems
>= 3.0.0, < 3.9.03.9.0
view_componentRubyGems
< 2.83.02.83.0

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