#VU21535 Cross-site scripting in Eclipse Platform 

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#VU21535 Cross-site scripting in Eclipse Platform

Published: October 4, 2019 / Updated: March 2, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU21535
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:P/U:Green
CVE-ID: N/A
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Eclipse Platform
Software vendor:
Eclipse

Description

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 when processing data passed via URL. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

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.

Example: 

http://[host]/topic/somehtml.html?cp=0_4_4");alert('XSS')//

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

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