CVE-2007-5944: IBM WebSphere Application Server

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Servlet Engine / Web Container in IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 5.1.1.4 through 5.1.1.16 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Expect HTTP header. NOTE: this might be the same issue as CVE-2006-3918, but there are insufficient details to be sure.

Affected products

• IBM WebSphere Application Server: version 5.1.1.4 only; version 5.1.1.5 only; version 5.1.1.6 only; version 5.1.1.7 only; version 5.1.1.8 only; version 5.1.1.9 only; …

Published 2007-11-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.