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CVE-2008-7271

• 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: yes
• Published: 2011-01-13 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Help Contents web application (aka the Help Server) in Eclipse IDE, possibly 3.3.2, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the searchWord parameter to help/advanced/searchView.jsp or (2) the workingSet parameter in an add action to help/advanced/workingSetManager.jsp, a different issue than CVE-2010-4647.

Affected products

• Eclipse Foundation Eclipse IDE: 3.3.2

References

• http://r00tin.blogspot.com/2008/04/eclipse-local-web-server-exploitation.html
• https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=223539
• http://r00tin.blogspot.com/2008/04/eclipse-local-web-server-exploitation.html
• https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=223539

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