CVE-2016-2956

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-09-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Web UI in IBM Connections 5.0 before CR4 and 5.5 before CR1 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-2954 and CVE-2016-3008.

Affected products

IBM Connections: 5.0.0.0, 5.5.0.0

References

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21988990
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92542
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21988990
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92542

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