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actionpack Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 24, 2017 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 10, 2023

Package

bundler actionpack (RubyGems)

Affected versions

>= 3.1.0, < 3.1.8
>= 3.2.0, < 3.2.8
>= 3.0, < 3.0.17

Patched versions

3.1.8
3.2.8
3.0.17

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 10, 2012
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 24, 2017
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Nov 10, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

0.192%
(57th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2012-3463

GHSA ID

GHSA-98mf-8f57-64qf

Source code

No known source code

Credits

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