CVE-2012-3463

Rails < 3.0.17 - XSS

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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)

[Vendor Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0154.html

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

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

Scores

EPSS 0.0033

EPSS Percentile 55.8%

Classification

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Affected Products (50)

rubyonrails/rails

... and 35 more

Timeline

Published Aug 10, 2012

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026