Weakness · Medium

CWE-107: Struts: Unused Validation Form

What it is

An unused validation form indicates that validation logic is not up-to-date.

MITRE CWE 4.19.1

Severity (our rating)
Medium
Likelihood of exploit
Not rated by MITRE
Introduced during
Implementation, Operation
Exploited in the wild
No CVE in CISA's catalog

What an attacker can do

  • Quality Degradation (Other)

How to prevent it

Implementation

  • Remove the unused Validation Form from the validation.xml file.

CWE-107 on MITRE's CWE site

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Source: MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration, CWE version 4.19.1. CWE is a trademark of The MITRE Corporation.