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Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation in Apache Sling

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 13, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 27, 2023

Package

maven org.apache.sling:org.apache.sling.api (Maven)

Affected versions

<= 2.2.1

Patched versions

2.2.2
maven org.apache.sling:org.apache.sling.servlets.post (Maven)
<= 2.1.1
2.1.2

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Apache Sling API before 2.2.2 and Apache Sling Servlets Post before 2.1.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the URI, related to (1) org/apache/sling/api/servlets/HtmlResponse and (2) org/apache/sling/servlets/post/HtmlResponse.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 2, 2015
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 13, 2022
Reviewed Jul 6, 2022
Last updated Jan 27, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(86th percentile)

Weaknesses

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2015-2944

GHSA ID

GHSA-rxvx-44w5-44r7

Source code

No known source code
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