CVE-2013-4212

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 81.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-12-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Certain getText methods in the ActionSupport controller in Apache Roller before 5.0.2 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary OGNL expressions via the first or second parameter, as demonstrated by the pageTitle parameter in the !getPageTitle sub-URL to roller-ui/login.rol, which uses a subclass of UIAction, aka "OGNL Injection."

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Roller: through 5.0.1; 4.0, 4.0.1, 5.0

References

http://rollerweblogger.org/project/entry/apache_roller_5_0_2
http://secunia.com/advisories/55862
http://secunia.com/advisories/55877
http://security.coverity.com/advisory/2013/Oct/remote-code-execution-in-apache-roller-via-ognl-injection.html
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/29859
http://www.osvdb.org/100342
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/89239
http://rollerweblogger.org/project/entry/apache_roller_5_0_2
http://secunia.com/advisories/55862
http://secunia.com/advisories/55877
http://security.coverity.com/advisory/2013/Oct/remote-code-execution-in-apache-roller-via-ognl-injection.html
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/29859

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