CVE-2011-4319: Translate helper method which may allow an attacker to insert arbitrary code into a page

November 28, 2011 (updated August 8, 2019)

The helper method for i18n translations has a convention whereby translations strings with a name ending in ‘html’ are considered HTML safe. There is also a mechanism for interpolation. It has been discovered that these ‘html’ strings allow arbitrary values to be contained in the interpolated input, and these values are not escaped.

References

github.com/rails/rails/commit/ba2d85012088fd0db0fab98b2e512c77c83cbade
github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionpack/OSVDB-77199.yml
groups.google.com/forum/

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