CVE-2015-7579: Rubyonrails Html Sanitizer

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the rails-html-sanitizer gem 1.0.2 for Ruby on Rails 4.2.x and 5.x allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an HTML entity that is mishandled by the Rails::Html::FullSanitizer class.

Affected products

• Rubyonrails Html Sanitizer: up to and including 1.0.2

Published 2016-02-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.