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CVE-2005-2860

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2005-09-08 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Nikto 1.35 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Server field in an HTTP response header, which is directly injected into an HTML report.

Affected products

• Nikto: through 1.35

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112561344400914&w=2
• http://seclists.org/lists/vulnwatch/2005/Jul-Sep/0032.html
• http://www.cybsec.com/vuln/010905-multiple_webscanner_script_injection.pdf
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14717
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112561344400914&w=2
• http://seclists.org/lists/vulnwatch/2005/Jul-Sep/0032.html
• http://www.cybsec.com/vuln/010905-multiple_webscanner_script_injection.pdf
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14717

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