Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the mail_to helper in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.11, and 3.x before 3.0.4, when javascript encoding is used, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted (1) name or (2) email value.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-0446
• http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/365b8a23b76a6b4a?dmode=source&output=gplain
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057650.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055074.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055088.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2247
• https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionview/CVE-2011-0446.yml
• https://groups.google.com/g/rubyonrails-security/c/8CpI7egxX4E/m/SmtqtyOKWzYJ
• https://web.archive.org/web/20120527023027/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46291
• https://web.archive.org/web/20200812054342/http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025064
• rails/rails@abe9773
• rails/rails@e3dd210
• https://web.archive.org/web/20111225083933/http://secunia.com/advisories/43274
• https://web.archive.org/web/20111225083933/http://secunia.com/advisories/43666
• https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionpack/CVE-2011-0446.yml