Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 31, 2005· Updated Apr 16, 2026
CVE-2005-4838
CVE-2005-4838
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the example web applications for Jakarta Tomcat 5.5.6 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) el/functions.jsp, (2) el/implicit-objects.jsp, and (3) jspx/textRotate.jspx in examples/jsp2/, as demonstrated via script in a request to snp/snoop.jsp. NOTE: other XSS issues in the manager were simultaneously reported, but these require admin access and do not cross privilege boundaries.
Affected products
1Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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References
18- secunia.com/advisories/13737nvdPatchVendor Advisory
- lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065598.htmlnvd
- marc.infonvd
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- securitytracker.com/idnvd
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- tomcat.apache.org/security-5.htmlnvd
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- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0261.htmlnvd
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36467nvd
- lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3Envd
- lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3Envd
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