# Apache Struts 2 is Missing XML Validation

Advisory record · `GHSA-qcfc-hmrc-59x7`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-qcfc-hmrc-59x7` · `CVE-2025-68493`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 8.1 High
- **Critical:** Yes: CVSS 7+ and EPSS
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-112](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/112.html) · [CWE-611](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/611.html)
- **Tags:** [XML external entities (XXE)](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/xxe.md) · [CWE-112](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/cwe-112.md)
- **Published:** 11 Jan 2026
- **Updated:** 3 Feb 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 11 Jan 2026, 15:31 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Critical

Critical, because:

- CVSS score 8.1 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.50 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How we decide what’s critical: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

## Affected packages

- `org.apache.struts:struts2-core` (Maven): affected `>=2.0.0, <=2.3.37 || >=2.5.0, <=2.5.33 || >=6.0.0, <6.1.1`; fixed in `6.1.1`
- `com.opensymphony:xwork` (Maven): affected `>=2.0.0`; no fixed version yet
- `org.apache.struts.xwork:xwork-core` (Maven): affected `>=2.2.1`; no fixed version yet

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

- 8.1 High, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H`, from GitHub Advisory Database

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.50, the 98th percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

- 31 Oct 2026, 15:09 UTC: First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 15:09 UTC: [Confirmed by OSV](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-qcfc-hmrc-59x7)

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-qcfc-hmrc-59x7](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qcfc-hmrc-59x7)
- [OSV: GHSA-qcfc-hmrc-59x7](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-qcfc-hmrc-59x7)
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68493>
- <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WW/S2-069>
- <https://github.com/apache/struts>
- <http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/11/2>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

## Check whether this affects you

A Match means an installed version is in the affected range above. Most don’t affect the app; agentprime hasn’t analysed this one yet.

- With the agentprime MCP server (<https://api.agentprime.io/mcp>), ask your agent to check the project: `check_lockfile` sends a lockfile, `check_packages` a list of installed packages, and both return the Matches and the upgrades that clear them. `get_advisory` returns this record. Setup: <https://agentprime.io/mcp.md>
- In a browser: <https://agentprime.io/check/> reads your lockfile in the browser, never uploading it.
- Whether it touches your code, with file and line: the Claude Code plugin, <https://agentprime.io/plugin.md>
- As JSON: <https://api.agentprime.io/v1/advisories/GHSA-qcfc-hmrc-59x7>, or `POST https://api.agentprime.io/v1/match` with your packages (<https://agentprime.io/api.md>)

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