CVE-2011-1772

Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 33.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-05-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in XWork in Apache Struts 2.x before 2.2.3, and OpenSymphony XWork in OpenSymphony WebWork, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving (1) an action name, (2) the action attribute of an s:submit element, or (3) the method attribute of an s:submit element.

Affected products

Apache Struts: 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5 (+22)
Opensymphony Webwork: all versions
Opensymphony Xwork: all versions

References

http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN25435092/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2011-000106
http://secureappdev.blogspot.com/2011/05/Struts_2_XWork_WebWork_XSS_in_error_pages.html
http://secureappdev.blogspot.com/2011/05/apache-struts-2-xwork-webwork-reflected.html
http://struts.apache.org/2.2.3/docs/version-notes-223.html
http://struts.apache.org/2.x/docs/s2-006.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47784
http://www.ventuneac.net/security-advisories/MVSA-11-006
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1198
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WW-3579
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN25435092/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2011-000106

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