{"id":"CVE-2012-3465","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2012-3465","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T18:46:38.534Z","title":"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…","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.","published":"2012-08-10T10:34:48.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:43:17.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"secalert@redhat.com","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":4.3,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-79"],"affected":["rubyonrails/rails","rubyonrails/ruby on rails"],"epss":{"score":0.01977,"percentile":0.80371,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.98%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0154.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/50694","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/8/9/ann-rails-3-2-8-has-been-released/","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/7fbb5392d4d282b5?dmode=source&output=gplain","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0154.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/50694","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/8/9/ann-rails-3-2-8-has-been-released/","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/7fbb5392d4d282b5?dmode=source&output=gplain","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3465","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}