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Who should read this | All Struts 2 developers and users |
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Impact of vulnerability | Affects of a cross-site scripting vulnerability. |
Maximum security rating | Important |
Recommendation | Upgrade runtime JRE to a recent major version, preferably 1.8. Alternatively upgrade to Struts 2.3.2728 |
Affected Software | Struts 2.0.0 - Struts Struts 2.3.24.1 |
Reporter | WhiteHat Security (whitehatsec.com) |
CVE Identifier | - |
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Alternatively upgrade to Struts 2.3.2728, which includes and uses a safe URLDecoder implementation from Apache Tomcat
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No issues expected when upgrading to Struts 2.3.2728
Workaround
Use UTF-8 for page and parameter encoding.
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