Cross-site scripting in Apache Struts - CVE-2011-1772

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Cross-site scripting in Apache Struts - CVE-2011-1772

Published: May 31, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU90113
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 2.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2011-1772
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: Public exploit is available

Vulnerability details

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving (1) an action name, (2) the action attribute of an s:submit element, or (3) the method attribute of an s:submit element.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


Affected software

Apache Struts
IBM Sterling Order Management
Call Center for Commerce

How to mitigate CVE-2011-1772

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability..

Apache Struts - update to 2.2.3
IBM Sterling Order Management - update to 10.0.0.29
Call Center for Commerce - update to 10.0.12

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