Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation in Apache Solr

published 2016-02-15 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-mx2h-hf7j-2x3p , EUVD-2022-4644

cvss: 6.1; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 2.7%; EPSS 2.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 86%
public exploits: 0; none known

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Admin UI in Apache Solr before 5.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted fields that are mishandled during the rendering of the (1) Analysis page, related to webapp/web/js/scripts/analysis.js or (2) Schema-Browser page, related to webapp/web/js/scripts/schema-browser.js.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

maven org.apache.solr:solr-core 5.1.0

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-2015-8795 updated 2025-11-21 cvss 5.8

solr: multiple XSS vulnerabilities

Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

2.69% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	6.1	CVSS:3.0/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	3.0	6.1	CVSS:3.0/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.apache.solr:solr-core	<5.1.0	5.1.0

Classification

Weakness

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

issues.apache.org /jira/browse/SOLR-7346
web, vendor-advisory
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8795
advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2015-8795
GitHub Advisory GHSA-mx2h-hf7j-2x3p
NVD CVE-2015-8795

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Summary