Weakness · High
CWE-109: Struts: Validator Turned Off
What it is
Automatic filtering via a Struts bean has been turned off, which disables the Struts Validator and custom validation logic. This exposes the application to other weaknesses related to insufficient input validation.
- Severity (our rating)
- High
- Likelihood of exploit
- Not rated by MITRE
- Introduced during
- Implementation
- Exploited in the wild
- No CVE in CISA's catalog
What an attacker can do
- Bypass Protection Mechanism (Access Control)
How to prevent it
Implementation
- Ensure that an action form mapping enables validation. Set the validate field to true.
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