CVE-2016-9259 — Cross-site Scripting in Nessus

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting3 documents3 sources
Severity
5.4MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 61.58%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Tenable Nessus
Timeline
PublishedFeb 28
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Tenable Nessus before 6.9.1 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NExploitability: 2.3 | Impact: 2.7

Affected Packages1 packages

▶NVDtenable/nessus4 versions+3

Patches

Patch: www.tenable.com ↗Patch: www.tenable.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-r88x-v2h2-gjhm: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Tenable Nessus before 6↗2022-05-17
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CVEList
CVE-2016-9259: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Tenable Nessus before 6↗2017-02-28
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