Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Apache Sling Servlets Post
Moderate severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
May 14, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Jan 27, 2023
Package
Affected versions
< 2.3.22
Patched versions
2.3.22
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Aug 14, 2017
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 14, 2022
Reviewed
Jun 30, 2022
Last updated
Jan 27, 2023
The Javascript method Sling.evalString() in Apache Sling Servlets Post before 2.3.22 uses the javascript 'eval' function to parse input strings, which allows for XSS attacks by passing specially crafted input strings.
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