CVE-2016-9260 — Cross-site Scripting in Nessus

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting3 documents3 sources
Severity
5.4MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 51.93%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Tenable Nessus
Timeline
PublishedJan 31
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Tenable Nessus before 6.9 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to handling of .nessus files.

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/nessus6.8.1

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-3p8x-pc99-4p67: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Tenable Nessus before 6↗2022-05-17
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CVEList
CVE-2016-9260: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Tenable Nessus before 6↗2017-01-31
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