CVE-2010-2986

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-08-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in webacs/QuickSearchAction.do in the search feature in the web interface in Cisco Wireless Control System (WCS) before 6.0(194.0) and 7.x before 7.0.164 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the searchText parameter, aka Bug ID CSCtf14288.

Affected products

Cisco Wireless Control System Software: through 6.0.188.0; 3.2.78.0, 4.0.155.5, 4.1, 4.1.83.0, 4.1.91.0, 4.1.171.0 (+31)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/40827
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/controller/release/notes/crn7.0.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/512878/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42216
http://www.tomneaves.com/Cisco_Wireless_Control_System_XSS.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/40827
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/controller/release/notes/crn7.0.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/512878/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42216
http://www.tomneaves.com/Cisco_Wireless_Control_System_XSS.txt

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