CVE-2008-2166

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-05-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the search module in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 before SP9 and 7.0 before Update 2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unknown parameters in index.jsp.

Affected products

Sun Java System Web Server: 6.1, 7.0

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/30133
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-231467-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29087
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019987
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1455/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42263
http://secunia.com/advisories/30133
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-231467-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29087
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019987
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1455/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42263

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