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diff --git a/actionpack/CHANGELOG.md b/actionpack/CHANGELOG.md index 9c12e09392..aceef9ae27 100644 --- a/actionpack/CHANGELOG.md +++ b/actionpack/CHANGELOG.md @@ -1,5 +1,12 @@ ## Rails 3.2.8 ## +* There is an XSS vulnerability in the strip_tags helper in Ruby on Rails, the + helper doesn't correctly handle malformed html. As a result an attacker can + execute arbitrary javascript through the use of specially crafted malformed + html. + + *Marek from Nethemba (www.nethemba.com) & Santiago Pastorino* + * When a "prompt" value is supplied to the `select_tag` helper, the "prompt" value is not escaped. If untrusted data is not escaped, and is supplied as the prompt value, there is a potential for XSS attacks. Vulnerable code will look something like this: |