CVE-2012-3463: Rubyonrails Rails

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Rubyonrails Rails: version 3.0.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only; version 3.0.4 only; version 3.0.5 only; …
• Rubyonrails Ruby On Rails: version 3.0.4 only

Published 2012-08-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.