CVE-2015-2703

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-03-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Websense TRITON AP-WEB before 8.0.0 and V-Series 7.7 appliances allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) ws-userip in the ws-encdata parameter to cve-bin/moreBlockInfo.cgi in the Data Security block page or (2) admin_msg parameter to configure/ssl_ui/eva-config/client-cert-import_wsoem.html in the Content Gateway, which is not properly handled in an error message.

Affected products

Websense Triton Ap Web: through 7.8.3
Websense V-Series Appliances: 7.7

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130902/Websense-Data-Security-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130908/Websense-Content-Gateway-Error-Message-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Mar/106
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Mar/108
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534912/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534914/100/0/threaded
http://www.websense.com/support/article/kbarticle/Vulnerabilities-resolved-in-TRITON-APX-Version-8-0
https://www.securify.nl/advisory/SFY20140910/cross_site_scripting_vulnerability_in_websense_data_security_block_page.html
https://www.securify.nl/advisory/SFY20140916/error_messages_of_websense_content_gateway_are_vulnerable_to_cross_site_scripting.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130902/Websense-Data-Security-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130908/Websense-Content-Gateway-Error-Message-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Mar/106

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