CWE-81 8 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-81: Improper Neutralization of Script in an Error Message Web Page

Overview

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.

Security impact
Security impact: Depends on product and context; use CVE records, severity scores, and MITRE guidance to prioritize.

Description

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.

Applicable platforms

Kind Name Class Prevalence OS / CPE
language Not Language-Specific Undetermined
technology Web Based Undetermined
technology Web Server Undetermined

Related CVEs in this database

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…

Previous names

  • XSS in Error Pages (2008-04-11)
  • Failure to Sanitize Directives in an Error Message Web Page (2009-05-27)
  • Improper Sanitization of Script in an Error Message Web Page (2010-06-21)

Content submission

Name
PLOVER
Date
2006-07-19
Version
Draft 3

Content modifications

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
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