CVE-2015-8797

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-02-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in webapp/web/js/scripts/plugins.js in the stats page in the Admin UI in Apache Solr before 5.3.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the entry parameter to a plugins/cache URI.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Solr: through 5.3

References

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21975544
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-7949
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21975544
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-7949

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