Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting actionpack package, versions < 3.2.8, >= 3.2< 3.1.8, >= 3.1< 3.0.17


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-ACTIONPACK-20038
  • published18 Oct 2016
  • disclosed8 Aug 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Aug 2012

CVE-2012-3465  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade actionpack to versions 3.2.8, 3.1.8, 3.0.17 or higher.

Overview

actionpack is a web app builder and tester on Rails.

Affected versions of this Gem are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks. The application does not validate input passed via the 'strip_tags' helper method before returning it to the user. This may allow a user to create a specially crafted request that would execute arbitrary script code in a user's browser within the trust relationship between their browser and the server.

Details

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CVSS Scores

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