CWE-917 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an Expression Language Statement ('Expression Language Injection')

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The product constructs all or part of an expression language (EL) statement in a framework such as a Java Server Page (JSP) using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended EL statement before it is executed.

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vulnerabilities (254)

Known CVEs related to this entry.

IDseverity exploitable
CVE-2026-41901US—OT criticalExploit
Thymeleaf is a server-side Java template engine for web and standalone environments. Prior to 3.1.5.RELEASE, a security bypass vulnerability exists in the expression execution mech…
CVE-2026-40478US—OT critical—
Thymeleaf is a server-side Java template engine for web and standalone environments. Versions 3.1.3.RELEASE and prior contain a security bypass vulnerability in the the expression…
CVE-2026-40477US—OT criticalExploit
Thymeleaf is a server-side Java template engine for web and standalone environments. Versions 3.1.3.RELEASE and prior contain a security bypass vulnerability in the expression exec…
CVE-2022-26134UScritical9.8OT criticalKEV
In affected versions of Confluence Server and Data Center, an OGNL injection vulnerability exists that would allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a Conflu…
CVE-2022-22963UScritical9.8OT criticalKEV
In Spring Cloud Function versions 3.1.6, 3.2.2 and older unsupported versions, when using routing functionality it is possible for a user to provide a specially crafted SpEL as a r…
CVE-2022-22947UScritical10.0OT criticalKEV
In spring cloud gateway versions prior to 3.1.1+ and 3.0.7+ , applications are vulnerable to a code injection attack when the Gateway Actuator endpoint is enabled, exposed and unse…
CVE-2021-45046UScritical9.0OT criticalKEV
It was found that the fix to address CVE-2021-44228 in Apache Log4j 2.15.0 was incomplete in certain non-default configurations. This could allows attackers with control over Threa…
CVE-2021-44228UScritical10.0OT criticalKEV
Apache Log4j2 2.0-beta9 through 2.15.0 (excluding security releases 2.12.2, 2.12.3, and 2.3.1) JNDI features used in configuration, log messages, and parameters do not protect agai…
CVE-2021-26084UScritical9.8OT criticalKEV
In affected versions of Confluence Server and Data Center, an OGNL injection vulnerability exists that would allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a Conflu…
CVE-2020-17530UScritical9.8OT criticalKEV
Forced OGNL evaluation, when evaluated on raw user input in tag attributes, may lead to remote code execution. Affected software : Apache Struts 2.0.0 - Struts 2.5.25.
CVE-2020-10199UShigh8.8OT criticalKEV
Sonatype Nexus Repository before 3.21.2 allows JavaEL Injection (issue 1 of 2).
CVE-2010-1871UShigh8.8OT criticalKEV
JBoss Seam 2 (jboss-seam2), as used in JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.3.0 for Red Hat Linux, does not properly sanitize inputs for JBoss Expression Language (EL) expressio…
CVE-2021-31805UScritical9.8Exploit
The fix issued for CVE-2020-17530 was incomplete. So from Apache Struts 2.0.0 to 2.5.29, still some of the tag’s attributes could perform a double evaluation if a developer applied…
CVE-2018-12533UScritical9.8Exploit
JBoss RichFaces 3.1.0 through 3.3.4 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to inject expression language (EL) expressions and execute arbitrary Java code via a /DATA/ substring in…
CVE-2022-22980UScritical9.8Exploit
A Spring Data MongoDB application is vulnerable to SpEL Injection when using @Query or @Aggregation-annotated query methods with SpEL expressions that contain query parameter place…
CVE-2020-3956UShigh8.8Exploit
VMware Cloud Director 10.0.x before 10.0.0.2, 9.7.0.x before 9.7.0.5, 9.5.0.x before 9.5.0.6, and 9.1.0.x before 9.1.0.4 do not properly handle input leading to a code injection vu…
CVE-2007-2853UShigh10.0Exploit
The VCDAPILibApi ActiveX control in vc9api.DLL 9.0.0.57 in Virtual CD 9.0.0.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a command line in the first argument to the…
CVE-2019-9041UShigh7.2Exploit
An issue was discovered in ZZZCMS zzzphp V1.6.1. In the inc/zzz_template.php file, the parserIfLabel() function's filtering is not strict, resulting in PHP code execution, as demon…
CVE-2019-5355UShigh7.5—
A remote denial of service vulnerability was identified in HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC) PLAT earlier than version 7.3 E0506P09.
CVE-2014-4968UShigh8.8Exploit
The WebView class and use of the WebView.addJavascriptInterface method in the Boat Browser application 8.0 and 8.0.1 for Android allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code vi…
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