{"id":"GHSA-q77q-vx4q-xx6q","summary":"Cross-site Scripting in org.owasp.esapi:esapi","details":"### Impact\nThere is a potential for an XSS vulnerability in ESAPI caused by a incorrect regular expression for \"onsiteURL\" in the **antisamy-esapi.xml** configuration file that can cause URLs with the \"javascript:\" scheme to NOT be sanitized. See the reference below for full details.\n\n### Patches\nPatched in ESAPI 2.3.0.0 and later. See important remediation details in the reference given below.\n\n### Workarounds\nManually edit your **antisamy-esapi.xml** configuration files to change the \"onsiteURL\" regular expression as per remediation instructions in the reference below.\n\n### References\n[Security Bulletin 8](https://github.com/ESAPI/esapi-java-legacy/blob/develop/documentation/ESAPI-security-bulletin8.pdf)\n\n### For more information\nIf you have any questions or comments about this advisory:\n* Email one of the project co-leaders. See email addresses listed on  the [OWASP ESAPI wiki](https://owasp.org/www-project-enterprise-security-api/) page, under \"Leaders\".\n* Send email to one of the two ESAPI related Google Groups listed under [Where to Find More Information on ESAPI](https://github.com/ESAPI/esapi-java-legacy#where-to-find-more-information-on-esapi) on our [README.md](https://github.com/ESAPI/esapi-java-legacy#readme) page.","aliases":["CVE-2022-24891"],"modified":"2025-11-04T00:21:30.949190Z","published":"2022-04-27T21:09:46Z","database_specific":{"severity":"MODERATE","github_reviewed":true,"github_reviewed_at":"2022-04-27T21:09:46Z","nvd_published_at":"2022-04-27T21:15:00Z","cwe_ids":["CWE-79"]},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/ESAPI/esapi-java-legacy/security/advisories/GHSA-q77q-vx4q-xx6q"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24891"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/ESAPI/esapi-java-legacy"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/ESAPI/esapi-java-legacy/blob/develop/documentation/ESAPI-security-bulletin8.pdf"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/ESAPI/esapi-java-legacy/blob/develop/documentation/esapi4java-core-2.3.0.0-release-notes.txt"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/07/msg00010.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230127-0014"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"org.owasp.esapi:esapi","ecosystem":"Maven","purl":"pkg:maven/org.owasp.esapi/esapi"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.3.0.0"}]}],"versions":["2.0.1","2.0GA","2.0_rc10","2.0_rc11","2.0_rc9","2.1.0","2.1.0.1","2.2.0.0","2.2.0.0-RC2","2.2.0.0-RC3","2.2.1.0","2.2.1.0-RC1","2.2.1.1","2.2.2.0","2.2.3.0","2.2.3.1"],"database_specific":{"last_known_affected_version_range":"\u003c= 2.2.3.1","source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/04/GHSA-q77q-vx4q-xx6q/GHSA-q77q-vx4q-xx6q.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"}]}