CVE-2020-16946

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting (XSS)4 documents4 sources
Severity
5.4MEDIUM
EPSS
0.6%
top 30.54%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
8
Microsoft Microsoft Sharepoint Enterprise Server 2016Microsoft Microsoft Sharepoint Foundation 2010 Service Pack 2Microsoft Microsoft Sharepoint Foundation 2013 Service Pack 1+5 more
Timeline
PublishedOct 16
Latest updateMay 24

Description

A cross-site-scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists when Microsoft SharePoint Server does not properly sanitize a specially crafted web request to an affected SharePoint server. An authenticated attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending a specially crafted request to an affected SharePoint server. The attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could then perform cross-site scripting attacks on affected systems and run script in the security context of the current user. The att…

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:NExploitability: 2.3 | Impact: 5.8

Affected Packages8 packages

▶CVEListV5microsoft/microsoft_sharepoint_server_201916.0.0 — publication

Patches

Patch: portal.msrc.microsoft.com ↗Patch: portal.msrc.microsoft.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-5hw6-9rj2-gh22: A cross-site-scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists when Microsoft SharePoint Server does not properly sanitize a specially crafted web request to an af↗2022-05-24
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CVEList
Microsoft Office SharePoint XSS Vulnerability↗2020-10-16
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Microsoft
Microsoft Office SharePoint XSS Vulnerability↗2020-10-13
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CVE-2020-16946 (MEDIUM CVSS 5.4) | A cross-site-scripting (XSS) vulner | cvebase.io