CVE-2019-0186

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 20.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-04-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The input fields of the Apache Pluto "Chat Room" demo portlet 3.0.0 and 3.0.1 are vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. Mitigation: * Uninstall the ChatRoomDemo war file - or - * migrate to version 3.1.0 of the chat-room-demo war file

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Pluto: 3.0.0, 3.0.1

References

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/portals-pluto-user/201904.mbox/%3CCAAqbB_ev=0KNgZmmNAq2=q11i1GYLGN6J-xCKx8Q8dbxZ4tZYg%40mail.gmail.com%3E
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152642/Apache-Pluto-3.0.0-3.0.1-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108091
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/d093e6b0e5f9b3b50928255451afefd8f8fbdcd5bf28a726769a919a%40%3Cpluto-user.portals.apache.org%3E
https://portals.apache.org/pluto/security.html
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46759/
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/04/25/8
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/portals-pluto-user/201904.mbox/%3CCAAqbB_ev=0KNgZmmNAq2=q11i1GYLGN6J-xCKx8Q8dbxZ4tZYg%40mail.gmail.com%3E
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152642/Apache-Pluto-3.0.0-3.0.1-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108091
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/d093e6b0e5f9b3b50928255451afefd8f8fbdcd5bf28a726769a919a%40%3Cpluto-user.portals.apache.org%3E
https://portals.apache.org/pluto/security.html

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