Advisories for Maven/Org.apache.velocity.tools/Velocity-Tools package

2021

Cross-site Scripting

The default error page for VelocityView in Apache Velocity Tools reflects back the vm file that was entered as part of the URL. An attacker can set an XSS payload file as this vm file in the URL which results in this payload being executed. XSS vulnerabilities allow attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the context of the attacked website and the attacked user. This can be abused to steal …