CVE-2006-1548

Struts vulnerability

CVSS

4.3

EPSS

5.3%

EPSS pct

92th

Exploited

No known

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in (1) LookupDispatchAction and possibly (2) DispatchAction and (3) ActionDispatcher in Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Struts before 1.2.9 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the parameter name, which is not filtered in the resulting error message.

Affected vendor

Apache

Affected product

Struts

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Published

2006-03-30

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 5.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

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