CVE-2008-7271

Exp

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.

Published: 2011-01-13 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2008-7271 is rated High Exploit Risk (60.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.90%). 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.34% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2008-7271

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
35243 exploit_db edb 2008-04-24 Exploit-DB ↗
35242 exploit_db edb 2008-04-24 Exploit-DB ↗
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-7271

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.56% 1.90% +1.34%
2 2026-04-12 0.39% 0.56% +0.17%
3 2026-03-07 — 0.39% —

Full EPSS history (9 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-7271

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2008-7271

OS Trackers for CVE-2008-7271

vendor priority summary link
redhat low — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-7271
ubuntu medium CVE-2008-7271 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (eclipse), 17 status rows across 17 suites (dapper, hardy, karmic, lucid, maverick, natty, oneiric, precise, quantal, raring, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial): ignored 12, not-affected 3, DNE 1, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2008-7271

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-7271

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
eclipse eclipse_ide — cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:eclipse_ide:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
eclipse eclipse_ide 3.3.2 cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:eclipse_ide:3.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-7271

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