CVE-2010-4647

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.7% 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 before 3.6.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the query string to (1) help/index.jsp or (2) help/advanced/content.jsp.

Affected products

Eclipse Foundation Eclipse IDE: through 3.6.1; 1.0, 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1, 2.1.1 (+32)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052532.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052554.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/06/16
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/06/7
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:032
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0568.html
http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/eclipse/%5Beclipse_help_server%5D_cross_site_scripting
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=329582
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64833
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052532.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052554.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/06/16

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