CVE-2016-4561
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the cgierror function in CGI.pm in ikiwiki before 3.20160506 might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors
02 Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the cgierror function in CGI.pm in ikiwiki before 3.20160506 might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.46% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 73.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.1 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2016-05-10 19:00Z10 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 00:32Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-05-06
- Assigning CNA
- debian
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 467966b31f6695eb5b8dd0e1bde590fd89a2a4b2177949caa65b41799c1e9621
05 Affected products
06 References
- source.ikiwiki.branchable.comhttp://source.ikiwiki.branchable.com/?p=source.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=32ef584dc5abb6ddb9f794f94ea0b2934967bba7
- www.debian.orgDSA-3571http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3571
- ikiwiki.infohttp://ikiwiki.info/security/#index43h2
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- ikiwiki Fixed in 3.20160506
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- ikiwiki Fixed in 3.20160506
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- ikiwiki Fixed in 3.20160506
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- ikiwiki No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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