CVE-2020-5765 — Cross-site Scripting in Nessus

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting3 documents3 sources
Severity
5.4MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 40.49%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Tenable NessusTenable Nessus
Timeline
PublishedJul 15
Latest updateMay 24

Description

Nessus 8.10.0 and earlier were found to contain a Stored XSS vulnerability due to improper validation of input during scan configuration. An authenticated, remote attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code in a user's session. Tenable has implemented additional input validation mechanisms to correct this issue in Nessus 8.11.0.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NExploitability: 2.3 | Impact: 2.7

Affected Packages2 packages

▶CVEListV5tenable/tenable_nessus< 8.11.0
▶NVDtenable/nessus8.10.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-w56w-fjv4-mc6j: Nessus 8↗2022-05-24
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CVEList
CVE-2020-5765: Nessus 8↗2020-07-15
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