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CVE-2008-72712 exploits

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Help Contents web application (aka the Help Server) in Eclipse IDE, possibly 3.3…

Published 15 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
4.3
v2.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
1.9%
percentile 80%
Public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Help Contents web application (aka the Help Server) in Eclipse IDE, possibly 3.3.2, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the searchWord parameter to help/advanced/searchView.jsp or (2) the workingSet parameter in an add action to help/advanced/workingSetManager.jsp, a different issue than CVE-2010-4647.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.90% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

  • EDB-35243 Eclipse 3.3.2 IDE - 'Help Server help/advanced/workingSetManager.jsp?workingSet' Cross-Site Scripting · remote · 2008-04-24
  • EDB-35242 Eclipse 3.3.2 IDE - 'Help Server help/advanced/searchView.jsp?SearchWord' Cross-Site Scripting · remote · 2008-04-24

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD2.04.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

  • r00tin.blogspot.com /2008/04/eclipse-local-web-server-exploitation.html · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
  • bugs.eclipse.org /bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=223539 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred

Sources

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