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medium 4.3

CVE-2008-7271 json

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Help Contents web application (aka the Help Server) in Eclipse IDE, possibly 3.3…

published 2011-01-13 15 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-7224

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.9%
EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 79%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Summary

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Help Contents web application (aka the Help Server) in Eclipse IDE, possibly 3.3.2, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the searchWord parameter to help/advanced/searchView.jsp or (2) the workingSet parameter in an add action to help/advanced/workingSetManager.jsp, a different issue than CVE-2010-4647.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2008-7271 updated cvss 2.6

eclipse: Help Content web application vulnerable to multiple XSS flaws

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 eclipse
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 eclipse, eclipse-jdt, eclipse-pde, eclipse-rcp, eclipse-swt, eclipse-platform
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-35243)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

1.90% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-35243 Eclipse 3.3.2 IDE - 'Help Server help/advanced/workingSetManager.jsp?workingSet' Cross-Site Scripting remote, 2008-04-24
  • EDB-35242 Eclipse 3.3.2 IDE - 'Help Server help/advanced/searchView.jsp?SearchWord' Cross-Site Scripting remote, 2008-04-24
  • r00tin.blogspot.com http://r00tin.blogspot.com/2008/04/eclipse-local-web-server-exploitation.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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