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CVE-2016-6283

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 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: 2017-01-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence before 5.10.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the newFileName parameter to pages/doeditattachment.action.

Affected products

• Atlassian Confluence: through 5.10.5

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/140363/Atlassian-Confluence-5.9.12-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jan/12
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jan/3
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95288
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40989/
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/140363/Atlassian-Confluence-5.9.12-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jan/12
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jan/3
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95288
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40989/

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