CVE-2014-9743

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-08-17 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the httpd_HtmlError function in network/httpd.c in the web interface in VideoLAN VLC Media Player before 2.2.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the path info.

Affected products

VideoLAN VLC: through 2.1.6

References

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fe5063ec5ad1873039ea719eb1f137c8f3bda84b
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/324
http://www.quantumleap.it/vlc-reflected-xss-vulnerability/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66307
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fe5063ec5ad1873039ea719eb1f137c8f3bda84b
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/324
http://www.quantumleap.it/vlc-reflected-xss-vulnerability/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66307

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