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CVE-2016-9260

medium

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.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95772

http://jvndb.jvn.jp/en/contents/2017/JVNDB-2017-000013.html

http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN12796388/index.html

https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-16

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-01-31

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00357