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Technical Advisory: Ruby on Rails – Possible XSS Vulnerability in ActionView tag helpers (CVE-2022-27777)
Summary Ruby on Rails is a web application framework that follows the Model-view-controller (MVC) pattern. It offers some protections against Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks in its helpers for the views. Several tag helpers in ActionView::Helpers::FormTagHelper and ActionView::Helpers::TagHelper are vulnerable against XSS because their current protection does not restrict properly the set of characters allowed in […]