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

CVE-2024-37031

Severity High
Score 7.2/10

Summary

The Active Admin (aka activeadmin) framework versions prior to 3.2.2, and 4.0.x prior to 4.0.0.beta7 for Ruby on Rails allows Stored - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) in certain situations where users can create entities (to be later edited in forms) with arbitrary names, aka a "dynamic form legends" issue.

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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.

Advisory Timeline

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