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Maurizio Cucchiara reassigned WW-3597:
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Assignee: Maurizio Cucchiara
> XSS vulnerability in javatemplates plugin
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> Key: WW-3597
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WW-3597
> Project: Struts 2
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Plugin - Java Templates
> Affects Versions: 2.2.1.1
> Reporter: Gareth Faires
> Assignee: Maurizio Cucchiara
> Priority: Critical
> Attachments: javatemplates-xss.patch
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> Many of the component handlers do not escape the value attribute. In fact
> they have been deliberately set to not escape their output. This enables
> reflective XSS on any page which uses the struts tags where the value is not
> manually escaped.
> The javatemplates plugin is increasingly being used instead of the default
> Freemarker renderer because of its performance benefits. The Freemarker
> renderer escapes values correclty therefore switching over to the
> javatemplates plugin can automatically make your website vulnerable.
> Also, the documentation should make it very clear which attributes are not
> encoded, for example, the anchor tag's href attribute is not encoded,
> therefore if you don't use the url tag to construct your url, then you need
> to make sure you escape any untrusted data you use to construct the url.
> I have updated all of the javatemplates plugins' tag handlers to be
> consistent with the Freemarker renderer and will attach a patch.
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