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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-40369

A carefully crafted plugin link invocation could trigger an XSS vulnerability on Apache JSPWiki, related to the Denounce plugin, which could allow the attacker to execute javascript in the victim's browser and get some sensitive information about the victim. Apache JSPWiki users should upgrade to 2.11.0 or later.

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1 Nov 2026, 05:43 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2021-40369

core-osv · Original source

Published 24 Nov 2021, 12:15 UTC

A carefully crafted plugin link invocation could trigger an XSS vulnerability on Apache JSPWiki, related to the Denounce plugin, which could allow the attacker to execute javascript in the victim's browser and get some sensitive information about the victim. Apache JSPWiki users should upgrade to 2.11.0 or later.

osv:CVE-2021-40369
Complete source record
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