CVE-2005-4838: Apache Tomcat

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 7.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the example web applications for Jakarta Tomcat 5.5.6 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) el/functions.jsp, (2) el/implicit-objects.jsp, and (3) jspx/textRotate.jspx in examples/jsp2/, as demonstrated via script in a request to snp/snoop.jsp. NOTE: other XSS issues in the manager were simultaneously reported, but these require admin access and do not cross privilege boundaries.

Affected products

• Apache Tomcat: up to and including 5.5.6

Published 2005-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.