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CVE-2012-3463
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,…
Medium4.3EPSS 1.3%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.3% · top 29% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsactionpackGHSA-98mf-8f57-64qf (opens in a new tab)
References (3)
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/8/9/ann-rails-3-2-8-has-been-released/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [rubyonrails-security] 20120810 Ruby on Rails Potential XSS Vulnerability in select_tag prompt (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:0154 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-98mf-8f57-64qf (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .