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CVE-2016-4003
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the URLDecoder function in JRE before 1.8, as used in Apache Struts 2.x before 2.3.28, when…
Medium6.1EPSS 11.6%
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- mitre
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the URLDecoder function in JRE before 1.8, as used in Apache Struts 2.x before 2.3.28, when using a single byte page encoding, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via multi-byte characters in a url-encoded parameter.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 11.6% · top 4.0% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.apache.struts:struts2-coreGHSA-m3x6-9v6h-4g28 (opens in a new tab)
References (4)
- http://struts.apache.org/docs/s2-028.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 86311 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1035268 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WW-4507 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-m3x6-9v6h-4g28 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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