CVE-2012-3465

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% 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/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.

Affected products

Ruby on Rails: 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3, 0.9.4, 0.9.4.1, 0.10.0 (+124)
rubyonrails Ruby On Rails: through 3.0.16; 0.5.0, 0.5.5, 0.5.6, 0.5.7, 0.6.0, 0.6.5 (+5)

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0154.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/50694
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/8/9/ann-rails-3-2-8-has-been-released/
https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/7fbb5392d4d282b5?dmode=source&output=gplain
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0154.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/50694
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/8/9/ann-rails-3-2-8-has-been-released/
https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/7fbb5392d4d282b5?dmode=source&output=gplain

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