CVE-2016-4003

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting (XSS)6 documents6 sources
Severity
6.1MEDIUM
EPSS
2.6%
top 14.31%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Apache Struts
Timeline
PublishedApr 12
Latest updateMay 14

Description

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 2.7

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Mavenorg.apache.struts:struts2-core2.0.0 — 2.3.28
▶NVDapache/struts2.0.0 — 2.3.24.1

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
Cross-site Scripting in Apache Struts↗2022-05-14
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OSV
Cross-site Scripting in Apache Struts↗2022-05-14
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CVEList
CVE-2016-4003: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the URLDecoder function in JRE before 1↗2016-04-12
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Red Hat
struts2: cross-site scripting vulnerability in the URLDecoder function↗2016-04-13
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-4003 struts2: cross-site scripting vulnerability in the URLDecoder function↗2016-04-13
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