CVE-2008-2421

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-05-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Web GUI in SAP Web Application Server (WAS) 7.0, Web Dynpro for ABAP (aka WD4A or WDA), and Web Dynpro for BSP allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the PATH_INFO to the default URI under bc/gui/sap/its/webgui/.

Affected products

Sap Web Application Server: 7.0
SAP Web Dynpro: abap, bsp

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/30334
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492376/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29317
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020097
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1599/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42724
http://secunia.com/advisories/30334
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492376/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29317
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020097
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1599/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42724

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