CVE-2013-4492

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in exceptions.rb in the i18n gem before 0.6.6 for Ruby allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted I18n::MissingTranslationData.new call.

Published: 2013-12-07 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2013-4492 is rated Moderate Risk (47.2/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.23%). EPSS rose +1.85% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2013-4492

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.38% 2.23% +1.85%
2 2025-03-30 0.90% 0.38% -0.52%
3 2025-03-29 — 0.90% —

Full EPSS history (8 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2013-4492

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2013-4492

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2013-4492

GHSA-r5hc-9xx5-97rw · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: rubygems — i18n gem Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

OS Trackers for CVE-2013-4492

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2013-4492 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (ruby-i18n), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4492
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4492
ubuntu medium CVE-2013-4492 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (ruby-i18n), 30 status rows across 30 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lucid, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, precise, quantal, questing, raring, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 21, needed 6, needs-triage 2, DNE 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4492

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2013-4492

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
i18n_project i18n <= 0.6.5 cpe:2.3:a:i18n_project:i18n:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*

References for CVE-2013-4492

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