CVE-2026-33168
Rails has a possible XSS vulnerability in its Action View tag helpers
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 2.3 Low
- Published
- Mar 23, 2026
- Updated
- Mar 24, 2026
- Reserved
- Mar 17, 2026
Description
Action View provides conventions and helpers for building web pages with the Rails framework. Prior to versions 8.1.2.1, 8.0.4.1, and 7.2.3.1, when a blank string is used as an HTML attribute name in Action View tag helpers, the attribute escaping is bypassed, producing malformed HTML. A carefully crafted attribute value could then be misinterpreted by the browser as a separate attribute name, possibly leading to XSS. Applications that allow users to specify custom HTML attributes are affected. Versions 8.1.2.1, 8.0.4.1, and 7.2.3.1 contain a patch.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 2.3 Low | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
actionviewrails |
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References
- https://github.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-v55j-83pf-r9cq
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/0b6f8002b52b9c606fd6be9e7915d9f944cf539c
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/63f5ad83edaa0b976f82d46988d745426aa4a42d
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/c79a07df1e88738df8f68cb0ee759ad6128ca924
- https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v7.2.3.1
- https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v8.0.4.1
- https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v8.1.2.1
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