CVE-2012-3463 (actionpack): CVE-2012-3463 rubygem-actionpack: potential XSS vulnerability in select_tag prompt

CVE-2012-3463 rubygem-actionpack: potential XSS vulnerability in select_tag prompt

Published: August 09, 2012

SECURITY IDENTIFIERS

CVE: CVE-2012-3463 (NVD)
GHSA: GHSA-98mf-8f57-64qf
OSVDB: OSVDB-84515

GEM

actionpack

FRAMEWORK

Ruby on Rails

SEVERITY

CVSS v2.0: 4.3 (Medium)

UNAFFECTED VERSIONS

~> 2.3.0

PATCHED VERSIONS

~> 3.0.17 ~> 3.1.8 >= 3.2.8

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.

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