CVE-2007-4542

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-08-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in MapServer before 4.10.3 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors involving the (1) processLine function in maptemplate.c and the (2) writeError function in mapserv.c in the mapserv CGI program.

Affected products

University Of Minnesota Mapserver: through 4.10.3

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=439346
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/download/current/HISTORY.TXT/
http://secunia.com/advisories/26561
http://secunia.com/advisories/26718
http://secunia.com/advisories/29688
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/attachment/ticket/2256/ms-bug-2256-4.8.patch
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2256
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1539
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25582
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2974
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00096.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=439346

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