CVE-2012-3465: Rubyonrails Rails

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Rubyonrails Rails: version 0.9.1 only; version 0.9.2 only; version 0.9.3 only; version 0.9.4 only; version 0.9.4.1 only; version 0.10.0 only; …
• Rubyonrails Ruby On Rails: up to and including 3.0.16; version 0.5.0 only; version 0.5.5 only; version 0.5.6 only; version 0.5.7 only; version 0.6.0 only; …

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