Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the user profile feature in Atlassian FishEye before 2.5.5 allow remote attackers to
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the user profile feature in Atlassian FishEye before 2.5.5 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) snippets in a user comment, which is not properly handled in a Confluence page, or (2) the user profile display name, which is not properly handled in a FishEye page.
- Published
- Dec 14, 2011
- Updated
- Jun 16, 2026
- EPSS
- 1.5% · 74th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-79
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Action score
17
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Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 17 / 40 · 4.3 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 1.5%
Affected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| atlassian | fisheye | cpe:2.3:a:atlassian:fisheye |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- atlassian fisheye1.3
- atlassian fisheye1.4
- atlassian fisheye1.4.1
- atlassian fisheye1.4.2
- atlassian fisheye1.4.3
- atlassian fisheye1.5.0
- atlassian fisheye1.5.1
- atlassian fisheye1.5.2
- atlassian fisheye1.5.3
- atlassian fisheye1.5.4
- atlassian fisheye1.6.0
- atlassian fisheye1.6.1
- atlassian fisheye1.6.2
- atlassian fisheye1.6.3
- atlassian fisheye1.6.4
- atlassian fisheye1.6.5.a
- atlassian fisheye1.6.6
- atlassian fisheye2.0
- atlassian fisheye2.0.1
- atlassian fisheye2.0.2
Same product
atlassian: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
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- CVE-2018-5223Fisheye and Crucible did not correctly check if a configured Mercurial repository URI contained values that the Windows operating system may29Monitor
- CVE-2017-18112Affected versions of Atlassian Fisheye allow remote attackers to view the HTTP password of a repository via an Information Disclosure vulner26Monitor
- CVE-2018-5228The /browse/~raw resource in Atlassian Fisheye and Crucible before version 4.5.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or JavaScr24Monitor
- CVE-2017-18090Various resources in Atlassian Fisheye before version 4.5.1 (the fixed version for 4.5.x) and before version 4.6.0 allow remote attackers to24Monitor
- CVE-2017-9510The repository changelog resource in Atlassian Fisheye before version 4.4.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or JavaScript v21Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
No known public exploit
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Research context
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Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
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No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
The product’s vendor appears in a public program. Matched by name; verify the scope text in the program.
Technical details
Attack conditions
If successful
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- P · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- none
- Attack complexity
- M
- Confidentiality impact
- None
- Integrity impact
- P
- Availability impact
- None
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
nvd-primary
Root cause
User content is inserted into the page as HTML. The browser interprets the content as code rather than data.
The bug in code
The whole CWE-79 classA representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.
Vulnerable
commentEl.innerHTML = comment.body;Fixed
commentEl.textContent = comment.body;Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Attack patterns (CAPEC)
ATT&CK techniques
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Noroxi analysis
No Noroxi analysis for this record yet
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No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.
References
- confluence.atlassian.com/display/FISHEYE/FishEye+and+Crucible+Security+Advisory+2011-11-22
- osvdb.org/77263
- osvdb.org/77264
- secunia.com/advisories/46975
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/50762
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71426
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71427
- jira.atlassian.com/browse/FE-3797
- jira.atlassian.com/browse/FE-3798
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.