Jenkins Subversion Release Manager Plugin vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS)

published 2020-03-09 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-wc2g-9j98-vcgw , EUVD-2022-5547

cvss: 6.1; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.3%; EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 70%
public exploits: 0; none known

Jenkins Subversion Release Manager Plugin 1.2 and earlier does not escape the error message for the Repository URL field form validation, resulting in a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability.

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-2020-2152 updated 2025-11-21 cvss 6.1

jenkins-subversion-plugin: error message for Repository URL field form validation leads to reflected XSS

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 jenkins-2-plugins Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 jenkins-2-plugins
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

Exploit prediction

1.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	6.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD	2.0	4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub	3.1	6.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
maven	org.jvnet.hudson.plugins:svn-release-mgr	<=1.2	no fix listed

Affected products

Jenkins project Jenkins Subversion Release Manager Plugin

Classification

Weakness

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

jenkins.io /security/advisory/2020-03-09/#SECURITY-1727
web, vendor-advisory
openwall.com /lists/oss-security/2020/03/09/1
mailing-list, web, third-party-advisory
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2020-2152
advisory
github.com /jenkinsci/svn-release-mgr-plugin
package

Sources

CVE List CVE-2020-2152
GitHub Advisory GHSA-wc2g-9j98-vcgw
NVD CVE-2020-2152

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Summary