CVE-2016-5005

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-07-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Apache Archiva 1.3.9 and earlier allows remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the connector.sourceRepoId parameter to admin/addProxyConnector_commit.action.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Archiva: through 1.3.9

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/137870/Apache-Archiva-1.3.9-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Jul/38
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538878/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91707
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036475
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff8dcfe29377088ab655fda9d585dccd5b1f07fabd94ae84fd60a7f8%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/137870/Apache-Archiva-1.3.9-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Jul/38
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538878/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91707
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036475
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff8dcfe29377088ab655fda9d585dccd5b1f07fabd94ae84fd60a7f8%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E

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