CVE-2015-8398

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-04-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence before 5.8.17 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the PATH_INFO to rest/prototype/1/session/check.

Affected products

Atlassian Confluence: through 5.8.16

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/537232/100/0/threaded
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39170/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/537232/100/0/threaded
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39170/

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