CVSS 3.0
6.1 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NCVE-2016-6316
Medium (6.1). EPSS 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in actionview 3.2.22.3, 4.2.7.1, 5.0.0.1.
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Action View in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.2.22.3, 4.x before 4.2.7.1, and 5.x before 5.0.0.1 might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via text declared as "HTML safe" and used as attribute values in tag handlers.
Severity
- EPSS
- 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 88% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-79
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- rubyonrails:rails
- rubyonrails:ruby_on_rails
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-pc3m-v286-2jwj | RubyGems | actionview | >=3.0.0 <3.2.22.3 | 3.2.22.3 |
| GHSA-pc3m-v286-2jwj | RubyGems | actionview | >=4.0.0 <4.2.7.1 | 4.2.7.1 |
| GHSA-pc3m-v286-2jwj | RubyGems | actionview | >=5.0.0 <5.0.0.1 | 5.0.0.1 |