CVE-2008-2518

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: 2008-06-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the advanced search mechanism (webapps/search/advanced.jsp) in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 before SP9 and 7.0 before Update 3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors, probably related to the next parameter.

Affected products

Sun Java System Web Server: 6.1, 6.1-sp1, 6.1-sp2, 6.1-sp3, 6.1-sp4, 6.1-sp5 (+6)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/30381
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-236481-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29355
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020110
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1649/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42624
http://secunia.com/advisories/30381
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-236481-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29355
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020110
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1649/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42624

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