CVE-2009-1275

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-04-09 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Apache Tiles 2.1 before 2.1.2, as used in Apache Struts and other products, evaluates Expression Language (EL) expressions twice in certain circumstances, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks or obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors, related to the (1) tiles:putAttribute and (2) tiles:insertTemplate JSP tags.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Tiles: 2.1.0, 2.1.1

References

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tiles/framework/trunk/src/site/apt/security/security-bulletin-1.apt?revision=741913
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34657
https://issues.apache.org/struts/browse/TILES-351
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tiles/framework/trunk/src/site/apt/security/security-bulletin-1.apt?revision=741913
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34657
https://issues.apache.org/struts/browse/TILES-351

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