CVE-2016-4316

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-02-17 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in WSO2 Carbon 4.4.5 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) setName parameter to identity-mgt/challenges-mgt.jsp; the (2) webappType or (3) httpPort parameter to webapp-list/webapp_info.jsp; the (4) dsName or (5) description parameter to ndatasource/newdatasource.jsp; the (6) phase parameter to viewflows/handlers.jsp; or the (7) url parameter to ndatasource/validateconnection-ajaxprocessor.jsp.

Affected products

WSO2 Carbon: 4.4.5

References

http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/WSO2-CARBON-v4.4.5-PERSISTENT-XSS-COOKIE-THEFT.txt
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138331/WSO2-Carbon-4.4.5-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539201/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92473
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40241/
http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/WSO2-CARBON-v4.4.5-PERSISTENT-XSS-COOKIE-THEFT.txt
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138331/WSO2-Carbon-4.4.5-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539201/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92473
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40241/

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