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Medium · 6.1 Public exploit CVE-2016-4316 EUVD-2016-5316GHSA-2vcm-2mcr-wmx7

WSO2 Carbon vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

Published Feb 16, 2017 · Updated Aug 6, 2024 · Assigned by certcc

Package: org.wso2.carbon.commons:org.wso2.carbon.messageflows.ui Package: org.wso2.carbon.commons:org.wso2.carbon.ndatasource.ui Package: org.wso2.carbon.identity.framework:org.wso2.carbon.identity.mgt.ui Ecosystem: Maven

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in WSO2 Carbon 4.4.5 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) setName parameter to identity-mgt/challenges-mgt.jsp; the (2) webappType or (3) httpPort parameter to webapp-list/webapp_info.jsp; the (4) dsName or (5) description parameter to ndatasource/newdatasource.jsp; the (6) phase parameter to viewflows/handlers.jsp; or the (7) url parameter to ndatasource/validateconnection-ajaxprocessor.jsp.

Public exploits

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Exploit-DB 1

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Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven org.wso2.carbon.commons:org.wso2.carbon.messageflows.ui <= 4.4.5 — GHSA-2vcm-2mcr-wmx7
Maven org.wso2.carbon.commons:org.wso2.carbon.ndatasource.ui <= 4.4.5 — GHSA-2vcm-2mcr-wmx7
Maven org.wso2.carbon.identity.framework:org.wso2.carbon.identity.mgt.ui <= 4.4.5 — GHSA-2vcm-2mcr-wmx7

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