You should be able to test if this is working or a false positive by putting the
following request in your browser (that has JavaScript enabled). You should get
a pop-up window.  This is the same test that is happening in the plugin.

/a.jsp/<SCRIPT>alert(document.domain)</script>

-Sullo

Quoting Kevin Passey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Hi again,
> 
> This is confusing me : I have one hole that I need to close.
> 
> I am getting a medium risk hole which I don't understand.
> 
> I have a Tomcat 4.0.4 web server running on port 80. 
> 
> Nessus is telling me "Older versions of JServ are venerable to a cross site
> scripting attack using a request for a non-existent .jsp file. Upgrade to
> the latest version of JServ or, for preference use Tomcat, as JServ is no
> longer maintained"
> 
> But I am using Tomcat - do I need to upgrade it further - or is this a false
> positive?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Kevin 
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