CVE-2010-4647
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Help Contents web application (aka the Help Server) in Eclipse IDE before 3.6.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the query string to (1) help/index.jsp or (2)…
Does this matter?
2 public exploits are published in Exploit-DB (verified), so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 5.7%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet.
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Help Contents web application (aka the Help Server) in Eclipse IDE before 3.6.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the query string to (1) help/index.jsp or (2) help/advanced/content.jsp.
- CVSS 2.0
- 4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- EPSS
- 5.71% probability · 93th percentile
- Public exploits
- 2 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 16 November 2010
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- eclipse/eclipse ide
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
EPSS 5.7% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (2)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052532.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052554.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/06/16Exploit
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/06/7Exploit
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:032
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0568.html
- http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/eclipse/%5Beclipse_help_server%5D_cross_site_scripting
- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=329582
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64833
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052532.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052554.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/06/16Exploit
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/06/7Exploit
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:032
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0568.html
- http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/eclipse/%5Beclipse_help_server%5D_cross_site_scripting
- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=329582
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64833
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.