CVE-2015-7579: XSS vulnerability in strip_tags

February 15, 2016 (updated August 8, 2019)

Due to the way that Rails::Html::FullSanitizer is implemented, if an attacker passes an already escaped HTML entity to the input of Action View’s strip_tags these entities will be unescaped what may cause a XSS attack if used in combination with raw or html_safe.

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