CVE-2009-1275: Apache Tiles

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Apache Tiles 2.1 before 2.1.2, as used in Apache Struts and other products, evaluates Expression Language (EL) expressions twice in certain circumstances, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks or obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors, related to the (1) tiles:putAttribute and (2) tiles:insertTemplate JSP tags.

Affected products

  • Apache Tiles: version 2.1.0 only; version 2.1.1 only

Published 2009-04-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.