GHSA-hc2f-pj8f-5vww
Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessObtain authoring rights on shared weblog
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DeliveryStore crafted payload in authoring field
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ExploitPayload persists in JS literal/markup sink
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ExecutionAdmin or co-author opens authoring UI
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PersistScript executes in victim browser
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ImpactSession/privilege abuse in admin origin
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization Output encoding, context-aware escaping
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Initial Access, Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Requires an attacker account with authoring rights on a weblog (PR:L) and a Roller deployment shared by multiple authors or administrators who are not mutually trusted - the advisory explicitly states no optional feature or non-default configuration is needed, so any default 6.1.5 instance with more than one author is affected. Exploitation is limited by the need for a second privileged victim (another author or administrator) to open the authoring UI (UI:R), meaning the payload does not fire without victim interaction. It affects only Apache Roller 6.1.5; upgrading to 6.1.6 removes the vulnerable JS-literal sinks. |
| Impact | The provided CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, 5.4 medium) accurately frames this as a moderate-severity stored XSS. It requires an authenticated attacker holding authoring rights on a weblog (PR:L) and requires a second victim - another author or administrator - to view the authoring UI (UI:R), so it is not a mass-exploitable flaw. The scope change (S:C) reflects that injected script executes in the victim's browser session (weblog admin origin) rather than only the attacker's context, but the confidentiality/integrity impacts are limited to Low and availability is unaffected. No EPSS score, KEV listing, POC, or SSVC decision data is provided in the input, so exploitation likelihood signals are absent. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis. Overall this is a real-but-low-priority issue: it depends on a multi-author/administrator trust boundary within a single Roller instance and requires an already-privileged insider plus victim interaction, so it is not a high-urgency internet-facing threat despite the network attack vector. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker who has been granted authoring rights on a shared Apache Roller 6.1.5 weblog stores crafted content that is written unencoded into JavaScript string literals and markup sinks of the authoring UI. When another author or a global administrator later opens the affected page in the admin/authoring interface, the stored script executes in their browser under the Roller admin origin, enabling session actions or privilege abuse. No public POC is referenced in the provided data. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 25, 2026
Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in Apache Roller 6.1.5 allows an authenticated user with authoring rights to inject persistent script into the blog authoring UI, which executes in another author's or administrator's browser when they open the affected page. Exploitation requires a shared weblog with multiple authors or administrators who are not mutually trusted and victim interaction (opening the authoring UI), but no optional feature or non-default configuration is needed. No public exploit identified at time of analysis; the issue is rated medium severity (CVSS 5.4).
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: Apache Roller 6.1.6 or later. Upgrade immediately, as 6.1.6 moves the affected values out of JavaScript literals and writes them as text, removing the injection sinks. There is no official workaround that fully mitigates the issue because the vulnerability is in the application's default rendering logic. If an immediate upgrade is not possible, restrict authoring rights to fully trusted users only and ensure that multi-author blogs are limited to mutually trusted participants; however, this is a deployment-level compromise that reduces collaboration flexibility and does not eliminate the risk from a malicious trusted user. No configuration toggle exists to disable the vulnerable feature. Monitor for suspicious content in the authoring UI as a detection measure. Consult the vendor advisory at https://roller.apache.org/ and the upstream PR at https://github.com/apache/roller/pull/168 for details.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
Apache Roller is a Java-based multi-user blog server that uses Apache Velocity templates to render its authoring UI. The vulnerability is an instance of CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation), where crafted content stored by a user with authoring rights is later written into JavaScript string literals and markup sinks without proper encoding. This stored XSS payload executes in the context of another user's browser session, potentially allowing session theft or other client-side attacks. The affected version is Apache Roller 6.1.5; the fix in 6.1.6 moves those values out of JavaScript literals and writes them as text, eliminating the injection sinks. The upstream fix is tracked in PR https://github.com/apache/roller/pull/168.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Authenticated author (PR:L) stores script that runs only when another privileged user views the admin UI (UI:R), crossing into their session (S:C) with limited C/I impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (CNA).
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
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Attack Technique
Cross-Site Scripting occurs when an application accepts untrusted data and sends it to a web browser without proper validation or encoding.
EUVD-2026-88140
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