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Apache Tiles Vulnerable to XSS via EL Expression Injection

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 2, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 23, 2024

Package

maven org.apache.tiles:tiles-core (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 2.1, < 2.1.2

Patched versions

2.1.2

Description

Apache Tiles 2.1 before 2.1.2, as used in Apache Struts and other products, evaluates Expression Language (EL) expressions twice in certain circumstances, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks or obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors, related to the (1) tiles:putAttribute and (2) tiles:insertTemplate JSP tags.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Apr 9, 2009
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 2, 2022
Last updated Jan 23, 2024
Reviewed Jan 23, 2024

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

0.507%
(76th percentile)

CVE ID

CVE-2009-1275

GHSA ID

GHSA-2c6q-rgvj-66rx

Source code

No known source code
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