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Status published
Medium
CVE-2012-3465
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/sanitize_helper.rb in the strip_tags helper...
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
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Affected Vendor
rubyonrails
View all reports →Affected Software
rails, ruby on rails
Vulnerable Versions:
0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3, 0.9.4, 0.9.4.1, 0.10.0, 0.10.1, 0.11.0, 0.11.1, 0.12.0, 0.12.1, 0.13.0, 0.13.1, 0.14.1, 0.14.2, 0.14.3, 0.14.4, 1.0.0, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.1.5, 1.1.6, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4, 1.2.5, 1.2.6, 1.9.5, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.4, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.3.4, 2.3.9, 2.3.10, 2.3.11, 2.3.12, 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5, 3.0.6, 3.0.7, 3.0.8, 3.0.9, 3.0.10, 3.0.11, 3.0.12, 3.0.13, 3.0.14, 3.1.0, 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3, 3.1.4, 3.1.5, 3.1.6, 3.1.7, 3.2.0, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.2.3, 3.2.4, 3.2.5, 3.2.6, 3.2.7, 0, 0.5.0, 0.5.5, 0.5.6, 0.5.7, 0.6.0, 0.6.5, 0.7.0, 0.8.0, 0.8.5, 0.9.0
Timeline
Official Publish:
August 10th, 2012
Last Modified:
August 6th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.