CVE-2016-4003: Cross-site Scripting

April 12, 2016 (updated November 23, 2018)

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the URLDecoder function in JRE, as used in Apache Struts, when using a single byte page encoding, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via multi-byte characters in an url-encoded parameter.

References

struts.apache.org/docs/s2-028.html
www.securityfocus.com/bid/86311
www.securitytracker.com/id/1035268
issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WW-4507
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4003

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