CVE-2012-3463: Ruby on Rails Potential XSS Vulnerability in select_tag prompt

August 10, 2012 (updated August 8, 2019)

When a value for the prompt field is supplied to the select_tag helper, the value is not escaped. If untrusted data is not escaped, and is supplied as the prompt value, there is a potential for XSS attacks.

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