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Medium · 6.1 CVE-2026-126070 EUVD-2026-122994GHSA-rq8q-p985-fjq7

Action View: Possible XSS vulnerability in Action View strip_tags

Published Nov 10, 2026 · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
rails rails < 8.0.5.2, >= 8.1, < 8.1.4.1 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 rails No fix yet —
Debian 13 rails No fix yet —
Debian 12 rails No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 rails No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS rails No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS rails No fix yet —
Show 4 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS rails No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS rails No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS rails No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS rails No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
RubyGems actionview >= 8.1.0.beta1, < 8.1.4.1 8.1.4.1 GHSA-rq8q-p985-fjq7
RubyGems actionview < 8.0.5.2 8.0.5.2 GHSA-rq8q-p985-fjq7

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