Spring Misconfiguration: HTML Escaping disabled

Description

This Spring web application is configured to disable the automatic HTML escaping for Spring tags which may lead to Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities.

Remediation

It's recommended to enable HTML escaping for Spring tags. This can be configured from web.xml like in the example below:

<web-app>
    ...
	<context-param>
		<param-name>defaultHtmlEscape</param-name>
		<param-value>true</param-value>
    </context-param>
    ...
</web-app>

At page level, it is defined as a tag-declaration.

  <spring:htmlEscape defaultHtmlEscape="true" />

References

Class HtmlEscapeTag

Related Vulnerabilities

WordPress Plugin WP-Live Chat by 3CX Cross-Site Scripting (7.0.06)

WordPress Plugin Duplicator-WordPress Migration Cross-Site Scripting (1.2.28)

WordPress Plugin Image Hover Effects Ultimate (Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison or Magnifier) Cross-Site Scripting (9.8.4)

WordPress Plugin Widget Control Powered By Everyblock Cross-Site Scripting (1.0.1)

WordPress Plugin Custom Text Selection Colors Cross-Site Scripting (1.0)

Severity

Medium

Classification

CWE-16 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N