CVE-2016-1609

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-08-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Novell Filr before 1.2 Security Update 3 and 2.0 before Security Update 2 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted input, as demonstrated by a crafted attribute of an IMG element in the phone field of a user profile.

Affected products

Novell Filr: through 1.2; through 2.0

References

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Jul/119
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92113
https://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=3V-3ArYN85I~
https://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=BOTiHcBFfv0~
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40161/
https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7017787
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Jul/119
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92113
https://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=3V-3ArYN85I~
https://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=BOTiHcBFfv0~
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40161/
https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7017787

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