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CVE-2012-3465 (actionpack): CVE-2012-3465 rubygem-actionpack: XSS Vulnerability in strip_tags

ADVISORIES

GEM

actionpack

FRAMEWORK

Ruby on Rails

SEVERITY

CVSS v2.0: 4.3 (Medium)

PATCHED VERSIONS

  • ~> 3.0.17
  • ~> 3.1.8
  • >= 3.2.8

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.