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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.
- Products
- rails
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.3.14.1
- CVEs
- CVE-2012-3465
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 23:32 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3465
rails
Fixed versions: 2.3.14.1
rails
Fixed versions: 2.3.14.1
rails
Fixed versions: 2.3.14.1
Complete source record
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