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  "system_id": "rails",
  "display_name": "Ruby on Rails",
  "category": "frameworks",
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  "title": "CVE-2012-3465",
  "summary": "Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/sanitize_helper.rb in the strip_tags helper in Ruby on Rails before 3.0.17, 3.1.x before 3.1.8, and 3.2.x before 3.2.8 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via malformed HTML markup.",
  "published_at": "2012-08-10T10:34:47.937",
  "updated_at": "2025-04-11T00:51:21.963",
  "severity": "medium",
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