CVE-2015-2840

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: 2015-04-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in help/rt/large_search.html in Citrix NetScaler before 10.5 build 52.3nc allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the searchQuery parameter.

Affected products

Citrix Netscaler: 10.5 (and their updates)

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130936/Citrix-NetScaler-VPX-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Mar/130
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534934/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73342
https://www.securify.nl/advisory/SFY20140807/citrix_netscaler_vpx_help_pages_are_vulnerable_to_cross_site_scripting.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130936/Citrix-NetScaler-VPX-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Mar/130
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534934/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73342
https://www.securify.nl/advisory/SFY20140807/citrix_netscaler_vpx_help_pages_are_vulnerable_to_cross_site_scripting.html

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