CVE-2020-5765: 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…

PriorityP425medium5.4CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRLUIRSCCLILAN

EPSS

1.10%

61.6th percentile

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.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
tenable	nessus	<= 8.10.0	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.15.4MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

nvdv2.03.5LOWAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

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