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title: "CVE-2008-7271\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2008-7271

Publication date 13 January 2011

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Help Contents
web application (aka the Help Server) in Eclipse IDE, possibly 3.3.2, allow
remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the
searchWord parameter to help/advanced/searchView.jsp or (2) the workingSet
parameter in an add action to help/advanced/workingSetManager.jsp, a
different issue than CVE-2010-4647.

[Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2008-7271?format=md#notes)

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| eclipse | 16.04 LTS xenial | Not affected |
| 15.10 wily | Not affected |
| 15.04 vivid | Ignored end of life |
| 14.10 utopic | Ignored end of life |
| 14.04 LTS trusty | Not in release |
| 13.10 saucy | Ignored end of life |
| 13.04 raring | Ignored end of life |
| 12.10 quantal | Ignored end of life |
| 12.04 LTS precise | Not affected |
| 11.10 oneiric | Ignored end of life |
| 11.04 natty | Ignored end of life |
| 10.10 maverick | Ignored end of life |
| 10.04 LTS lucid | Ignored end of life |
| 9.10 karmic | Ignored end of life |
| 8.04 LTS hardy | Ignored end of life |
| 6.06 LTS dapper | Ignored end of life |

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* [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)
* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)

## Notes

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### [sbeattie](https://launchpad.net/~sbeattie)

fixed upstream in 3.4

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-7271)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-7271)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2008-7271)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-7271)

### Other references

* <http://r00tin.blogspot.com/2008/04/eclipse-local-web-server-exploitation.html>
* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-7271>