Cross-site Scripting in Apache Struts
Date: 2022-05
Affected: maven/org.apache.struts:struts2-core
Attack vector: xss
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: Medium
CVE: CVE-2006-1548
CVE-2016-4003
CWE: CWE-79
CVSS: 6.1 (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the URLDecoder function in JRE before 1.8, as used in Apache Struts 2.x before 2.3.28, when using a single byte page encoding, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via multi-byte characters in a url-encoded parameter.


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