CVE-2008-7248: Rubyonrails Rails

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 8.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Ruby on Rails 2.1 before 2.1.3 and 2.2.x before 2.2.2 does not verify tokens for requests with certain content types, which allows remote attackers to bypass cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection for requests to applications that rely on this protection, as demonstrated using text/plain.

Affected products

• Rubyonrails Rails: version 2.1.0 only; version 2.1.1 only; version 2.1.2 only; version 2.2.0 only; version 2.2.1 only

Published 2009-12-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.