CVE-2013-0542

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-04-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Administrative console in IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 6.1 before 6.1.0.47, 7.0 before 7.0.0.29, 8.0 before 8.0.0.6, and 8.5 before 8.5.0.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted field values.

Affected products

IBM WebSphere Application Server: through 6.1.0.45; 6.1.0, 6.1.0.0, 6.1.0.1, 6.1.0.2, 6.1.0.3, 6.1.0.5 (+47)

References

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?&uid=swg21632423
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PM81846
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/82697
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?&uid=swg21632423
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PM81846
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/82697

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