CVE-2012-3463

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-08-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

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.

Affected products

Ruby on Rails: 3.0.0, 3.0.0-beta, 3.0.0-beta2, 3.0.0-beta3, 3.0.0-beta4, 3.0.0-rc (+73)
rubyonrails Ruby On Rails: 3.0.4

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0154.html
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/8/9/ann-rails-3-2-8-has-been-released/
https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/961e18e514527078?dmode=source&output=gplain
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0154.html
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/8/9/ann-rails-3-2-8-has-been-released/
https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/961e18e514527078?dmode=source&output=gplain

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