CVE-2026-126070

Action View is a framework for handling view template lookup and rendering and provides view helpers for building HTML. Prior to 8.1.4.1 and 8.0.5.2, strip_tags in Action View returns its sanitized output marked html_safe, but the underlying sanitizer encodes only &, < and >, leaving " and ' unencoded. Because ERB does not escape a string marked html_safe, untrusted input passed through strip_tags and rendered inside a quoted HTML attribute value could close the attribute and add new attributes, possibly leading to XSS. Applications that render strip_tags output from untrusted input inside an HTML attribute, for example in a title attribute or a <meta content> tag, are affected. Output rendered as element content is not affected. This issue is fixed in versions 8.1.4.1 and 8.0.5.2.

• https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/568b19cb860322885593e308a7f27aceb779e9d7
• https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/c3772a10f405f9644125cbb484adfd2aa7a25a59
• https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v8.0.5.2
• https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v8.1.4.1
• https://github.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-rq8q-p985-fjq7

• https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/568b19cb860322885593e308a7f27aceb779e9d7
• https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/c3772a10f405f9644125cbb484adfd2aa7a25a59
• https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v8.0.5.2
• https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v8.1.4.1
• https://github.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-rq8q-p985-fjq7

• MEDIUMCVE-2012-20003PoC
• MEDIUMCVE-2012-20004PoC
• MEDIUMCVE-2012-20005PoC
• MEDIUMCVE-2013-20009PoC
• MEDIUMCVE-2014-125131PoC
• MEDIUMCVE-2014-125132PoC
• MEDIUMCVE-2015-20130PoC
• MEDIUMCVE-2016-20098PoC

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