Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2008-6682

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-6682 describes multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Apache Struts versions 2.0.x before 2.0.11.1 and 2.1.x before 2.1.1. These flaws allow remote attackers to inject malicious web scripts or HTML due to improper handling of double quotes in s:a tags and parameters in s:url tags. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and potential for partial integrity impact, with no confidentiality or availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:struts:2.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:struts:2.0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:struts:2.0.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:struts:2.0.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:struts:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.61%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0561 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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 (2)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.struts:struts2-coreFixed in: 2.0.11.1
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.struts:struts2-coreFixed in: 2.1.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-jgcr-9c2q-rvp8medium

Apache Struts is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

May 17, 2022

References

issues.apache.org / struts/browse/WW-2414
Vendor Advisory
issues.apache.org / struts/browse/WW-2427
Vendor Advisory
nabble.com / Feedback%3A-WW-2414%2C-XSS-attack-is-possible-if-using-%3Cs%3Aurl-...%3E-and-%3Cs%3Aa-...%3E-td14771449.html
Patch
nabble.com / Feedback%3A-WW-2414%2C-XSS-attack-is-possible-if-using-%3Cs%3Aurl-...%3E-and-%3Cs%3Aa-...%3E-td14771449i20.html
Patch
securityfocus.com / bid/34686