CVE-2012-3465

Rails < 3.0.16 - XSS

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Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/sanitize_helper.rb in the strip_tags helper in Ruby on Rails 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 malformed HTML markup.

References (4)

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

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/50694

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

[Mailing List] https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/7fbb5392d4d282b5?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