Persistent XSS vulnerability in Jenkins OWASP Dependency-Check Plugin

published 2017-10-04 9y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also GHSA-65cq-whr4-7c2v , EUVD-2022-2715

cvss: 6.1; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.9%; EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 61%
public exploits: 0; none known

The custom Details view of the Static Analysis Utilities based OWASP Dependency-Check Plugin, was vulnerable to a persisted cross-site scripting vulnerability: Malicious users able to influence the input to this plugin could insert arbitrary HTML into this view.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

maven org.jenkins-ci.plugins:dependency-check-jenkins-plugin 2.0.1.2

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Exploit prediction

0.95% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 61% 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.jenkins-ci.plugins:dependency-check-jenkins-plugin	<2.0.1.2	2.0.1.2

Classification

Weakness

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

jenkins.io /security/advisory/2017-08-07/
vendor-advisory
securityfocus.com /bid/100227
vdb-entry, web, third-party-advisory
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000109
advisory
jenkins.io /security/advisory/2017-08-07
web

Sources

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