Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability in Ruby on Rails sanitize_css Method
CVE-2013-1855 · MEDIUM Severity
AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
The sanitize_css method in lib/action_controller/vendor/html-scanner/html/sanitizer.rb in the Action Pack component in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.18, 3.0.x and 3.1.x before 3.1.12, and 3.2.x before 3.2.13 does not properly handle \n (newline) characters, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via crafted Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequences.
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