6.3

CVE-2023-23913: rails rails-ujs Cross-site Scripting

CVSS: 6.3v3.1MediumDeferred
AliasesSUSE-SU-2023:3813-1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-23913DEBIAN-CVE-2023-23913
Published 09-01-2025Last modified 09-01-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-23913 is a medium (CVSS 6.3) Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in rails rails-ujs. EPSS estimates a 0.64% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 49.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
25/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.3/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.64%
0%100%
Low · +0.03 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1
DSA-5389-1

Timeline

  1. 09-01-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 09-01-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

There is a potential DOM based cross-site scripting issue in rails-ujs which leverages the Clipboard API to target HTML elements that are assigned the contenteditable attribute. This has the potential to occur when pasting malicious HTML content from the clipboard that includes a data-method, data-remote or data-disable-with attribute.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.64%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

50%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.03 pp

From 0.61% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.64%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Suse5 products
  • rubygem-actionview-5_1&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP1< 5.1.4-150000.3.9.1
  • rubygem-actionview-5_1&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP2< 5.1.4-150000.3.9.1
  • rubygem-actionview-5_1&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP3< 5.1.4-150000.3.9.1
  • rubygem-actionview-5_1&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP4< 5.1.4-150000.3.9.1
  • rubygem-actionview-5_1&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP5< 5.1.4-150000.3.9.1
Opensuse2 products
  • rubygem-actionview-5_1&distro=openSUSE Leap 15.4< 5.1.4-150000.3.9.1
  • rubygem-actionview-5_1&distro=openSUSE Leap 15.5< 5.1.4-150000.3.9.1
Debian1 product
  • rails< 2:6.1.7.3+dfsg-1
Rails1 product
  • rails-ujs≥ 6.1.7.3, < 6.1.7.3 | ≥ 7.0.4.3, < 7.0.4.3
RubyGems1 product
  • actionview≥ 5.1.0, < 6.1.7.3 | ≥ 7.0.0, < 7.0.4.3
Ubuntu1 product
  • railsAll versions (No fix recorded)

6 vendors · 11 products

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