CWE-81 (Improper Neutralization of Script in an Error Message Web Page) documents a weakness type used across vulnerability databases and security assessments. Use the sections below for definition, context, and mapped CVEs.
The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to an error page.
| Kind | Name | Class | Prevalence | OS / CPE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| language | — | Not Language-Specific | Undetermined | — |
| technology | — | Web Based | Undetermined | — |
| technology | Web Server | — | Undetermined | — |
These CVEs are mapped to this weakness in this database and kept for traceability and search.
| CVE | Published | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2025-24344 | 2025-04-30 | A vulnerability in the error notification messages of the web application of ctrlX OS allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to inject arbitrary HTML tags and, possibly, execute arbitrary client-sid… |
| CVE-2025-0883 | 2025-03-12 | Improper Neutralization of Script in an Error Message Web Page vulnerability in OpenText™ Service Manager. The vulnerability could reveal sensitive information retained by the browser. This issue a… |
| CVE-2024-47882 | 2024-10-24 | OpenRefine is a free, open source tool for working with messy data. Prior to version 3.8.3, the built-in "Something went wrong!" error page includes the exception message and exception traceback witho… |
| CVE-2024-47064 | 2024-09-30 | Computer Vision Annotation Tool (CVAT) is an interactive video and image annotation tool for computer vision. If an attacker can trick a logged-in CVAT user into visiting a maliciously-constructed URL… |
| CVE-2024-6892 | 2024-08-08 | Attackers can craft a malicious link that once clicked will execute arbitrary JavaScript in the context of the Journyx web application. |
| CVE-2022-4137 | 2023-09-25 | A reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was found in the 'oob' OAuth endpoint due to incorrect null-byte handling. This issue allows a malicious link to insert an arbitrary URI into a Key… |
| CVE-2022-4361 | 2023-07-07 | Keycloak, an open-source identity and access management solution, has a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the SAML or OIDC providers. The vulnerability can allow an attacker to execute malic… |
| CVE-2019-25027 | 2021-04-23 | Missing output sanitization in default RouteNotFoundError view in com.vaadin:flow-server versions 1.0.0 through 1.0.10 (Vaadin 10.0.0 through 10.0.13), and 1.1.0 through 1.4.2 (Vaadin 11.0.0 through 1… |
| Date | Name | Version | Importance | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-07-01 | Eric Dalci | 1.0 | — | updated Time_of_Introduction |
| 2008-09-08 | CWE Content Team | 1.0 | — | updated Description, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings, Weakness_Ordinalities |
| 2008-10-14 | CWE Content Team | 1.0.1 | — | updated Description |
| 2009-05-27 | CWE Content Team | 1.4 | — | updated Description, Name |
| 2010-04-05 | CWE Content Team | 1.8.1 | — | updated Related_Attack_Patterns |
| 2010-06-21 | CWE Content Team | 1.9 | — | updated Description, Name, Potential_Mitigations |
| 2011-03-29 | CWE Content Team | 1.12 | — | updated Potential_Mitigations |
| 2011-06-01 | CWE Content Team | 1.13 | — | updated Common_Consequences |
| 2012-05-11 | CWE Content Team | 2.2 | — | updated References, Relationships |
| 2012-10-30 | CWE Content Team | 2.3 | — | updated Potential_Mitigations |
| 2013-02-21 | CWE Content Team | 2.4 | — | updated Potential_Mitigations |
| 2014-07-30 | CWE Content Team | 2.8 | — | updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings |
| 2017-05-03 | CWE Content Team | 2.11 | — | updated Potential_Mitigations |
| 2017-11-08 | CWE Content Team | 3.0 | — | updated Applicable_Platforms, Causal_Nature |
| 2020-02-24 | CWE Content Team | 4.0 | — | updated Description, Relationships |
| 2020-06-25 | CWE Content Team | 4.1 | — | updated Potential_Mitigations |
| 2023-01-31 | CWE Content Team | 4.10 | — | updated Description |
| 2023-04-27 | CWE Content Team | 4.11 | — | updated Relationships |
| 2023-06-29 | CWE Content Team | 4.12 | — | updated Mapping_Notes |
| 2025-12-11 | CWE Content Team | 4.19 | — | updated Applicable_Platforms, Detection_Factors |