CVE-2011-1772

38
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-1772 describes multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities found in XWork within Apache Struts 2.x (before version 2.2.3) and OpenSymphony WebWork. These flaws allow remote attackers to inject malicious web script or HTML through specially crafted action names or the 'action' and 'method' attributes of 's:submit' elements. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.6, indicating a network-based attack with high complexity and a potential impact of partial integrity compromise. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code for this specific XSS vulnerability in Struts 2.0.0 to 2.2.1.1 is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:struts:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:struts:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:struts:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:struts:2.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:struts:2.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.6LOW

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
33.11%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-35735 · May 10, 2011
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.3311 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 1,505 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.3 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.struts:struts2-coreFixed in: 2.2.3
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: struts
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 1Fixed in: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 1Fixed in: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5