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
Related Vulnerabilities
WordPress Plugin GiveWP-Donation and Fundraising Platform Cross-Site Scripting (2.4.6)
WordPress Plugin Custom Map Cross-Site Scripting (1.1)
WordPress Plugin File Manager Cross-Site Scripting (2.9)
WordPress Plugin WP Page Builder Cross-Site Scripting (1.2.6)
WordPress Plugin Cookie Law Bar Cross-Site Scripting (1.2.1)