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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2026-04-28 08:37

Modified

2026-09-08 08:34

Summary

Apache ActiveMQ, Apache ActiveMQ Web: ActiveMQ Web Console - XSS vulnerability when browsing queues

Details

Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS) vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ, Apache ActiveMQ Web.

An authenticated attacker can show malicious content when browsing queues in the web console by overriding the content type to be HTML (instead of XML) and by injecting HTML into a JMS selector field.

This issue affects Apache ActiveMQ: before 5.19.6, from 6.0.0 before 6.2.5; Apache ActiveMQ Web: before 5.19.6, from 6.0.0 before 6.2.5.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 6.2.5 or 5.19.6, which fixes the issue.

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  "modified": "2026-09-08T08:34:36.952Z",
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CVE-2026-41043 (GCVE-0-2026-41043)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-24 10:16 – Updated: 2026-04-24 18:17

Title

Apache ActiveMQ, Apache ActiveMQ Web: ActiveMQ Web Console - XSS vulnerability when browsing queues

Summary

Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS) vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ, Apache ActiveMQ Web. An authenticated attacker can show malicious content when browsing queues in the web console by overriding the content type to be HTML (instead of XML) and by injecting HTML into a JMS selector field. This issue affects Apache ActiveMQ: before 5.19.6, from 6.0.0 before 6.2.5; Apache ActiveMQ Web: before 5.19.6, from 6.0.0 before 6.2.5. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 6.2.5 or 5.19.6, which fixes the issue.

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-04-24 18:05 UTC

CWE

CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CWE-915 - Improperly Controlled Modification of Dynamically-Determined Object Attributes

Assigner

apache CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard B 76/100 over 1085 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://activemq.apache.org/security-advisories.d…	vendor-advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/23/5

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Apache Software Foundation	Apache ActiveMQ	Affected: 0 , < 5.19.6 (semver) Affected: 6.0.0 , < 6.2.5 (semver)
Apache Software Foundation	Apache ActiveMQ Web	Affected: 0 , < 5.19.6 (semver) Affected: 6.0.0 , < 6.2.5 (semver)

Credits

Khaled Alshammri

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