CVE-2012-3463

Ruby on Rails 3.x < 3.0.17, 3.1.x < 3.1.8, 3.2.x < 3.2.8 - Cross-Site Scripting via select_tag Helper Prompt Field

Title source: llm

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/form_tag_helper.rb in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.0.17, 3.1.x before 3.1.8, and 3.2.x before 3.2.8 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the prompt field to the select_tag helper.

References (3)

Core 3

Core References

Various Sources x_refsource_confirm

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/8/9/ann-rails-3-2-8-has-been-released/

Patch mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/961e18e514527078?dmode=source&output=gplain

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0154.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0033

EPSS Percentile 56.1%

Details

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Products (18)

rubygems/actionpack 3.0 - 3.0.17RubyGems

rubyonrails/rails 3.0.0 (7 CPE variants)

rubyonrails/rails 3.0.1 (2 CPE variants)

rubyonrails/rails 3.0.2 (2 CPE variants)

rubyonrails/rails 3.0.3

rubyonrails/rails 3.0.4 rc1

rubyonrails/rails 3.0.5 (2 CPE variants)

rubyonrails/rails 3.0.6 (3 CPE variants)

rubyonrails/rails 3.0.7 (3 CPE variants)

rubyonrails/rails 3.0.8 (5 CPE variants)

... and 8 more

Published Aug 10, 2012

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026