XSS in IBM Maximo: Finding and Fixing the Real Risks
IBM Maximo is one of those platforms where XSS problems rarely come from the shiny marketing demo path. They usually come from years of customizations: automation scripts, JSP tweaks, web client extensions, integration messages rendered in the UI, and “quick” fixes that stayed in production for a decade. If you work on Maximo, you need to think about XSS differently than you would in a small React app. Maximo mixes server-rendered UI, legacy components, rich client behavior, and lots of user-controlled business data. That combination is perfect for reflected, stored, and DOM-based XSS if output handling is sloppy. ...