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CVE-2012-3465

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 2.0%EU EUVD

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.

Key facts

CVSS score
4.3 (v2.0)
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-79
EPSS score
2.0% (81th percentile)
In CISA KEV
No
In EU EUVD
Yes (EUVD-2017-0188)
Published
August 10, 2012
NVD last modified
June 16, 2026
Status
Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2017-0188 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

  • rubyonrails / rails
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References

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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