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Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVE-2023-23913

Medium
6.3/10

Summary

A potential DOM based cross-site scripting issue in actionview which leverages the Clipboard API to target HTML elements that are assigned the "contenteditable" attribute. This has the potential to occur when pasting malicious HTML content from the clipboard that includes a "data-method", "data-remote" or "data-disable-with" attribute. This vulnerability affects actionview versions 5.1.0.beta1 through 6.1.7.2 and 7.0.0.alpha1 through 7.0.4.2 and rails-ujs 5.1.0.beta1.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
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  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
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CWE-79 - Cross Site Scripting

Cross-Site Scripting, commonly referred to as XSS, is the most dominant class of vulnerabilities. It allows an attacker to inject malicious code into a pregnable web application and victimize its users. The exploitation of such a weakness can cause severe issues such as account takeover, and sensitive data exfiltration. Because of the prevalence of XSS vulnerabilities and their high rate of exploitation, it has remained in the OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities for years.

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