CVE-2017-16856

published 2017-12-05

CVE-2017-16856: The RSS Feed macro in Atlassian Confluence before version 6.5.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or JavaScript via cross site scripting (XSS)…

Priority P4 22 medium 6.1 CVSS 3.0

AV N AC L PR N UI R S C C L I L A N

The RSS Feed macro in Atlassian Confluence before version 6.5.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or JavaScript via cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in various rss properties which were used as links without restriction on their scheme.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
atlassian	confluence	< 6.5.2	6.5.2
atlassian	confluence	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 6.1 MEDIUM CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

nvd v2.0 4.3 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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