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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2017-16792

Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in "geminabox" (Gem in a Box) before 0.13.10 allows attackers to inject arbitrary web script via the "homepage" value of a ".gemspec" file, related to views/gem.erb and views/index.erb.

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31 Oct 2026, 09:52 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2017-16792

core-osv · Original source

Published 13 Nov 2017, 09:29 UTC

Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in "geminabox" (Gem in a Box) before 0.13.10 allows attackers to inject arbitrary web script via the "homepage" value of a ".gemspec" file, related to views/gem.erb and views/index.erb.

osv:CVE-2017-16792
Complete source record
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    "summary": "Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in \"geminabox\" (Gem in a Box) before 0.13.10 allows attackers to inject arbitrary web script via the \"homepage\" value of a \".gemspec\" file, related to views/gem.erb and views/index.erb.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:48:16.026202847Z",
      "provider": "osv",
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        "https://github.com/geminabox/geminabox/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md",
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 380207,
  "published_at": "2017-11-13T09:29:00.34+00:00"
}