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CVE-2016-6800

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-08-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The default configuration of the Apache OFBiz framework offers a blog functionality. Different users are able to operate blogs which are related to specific parties. In the form field for the creation of new blog articles the user input of the summary field as well as the article field is not properly sanitized. It is possible to inject arbitrary JavaScript code in these form fields. This code gets executed from the browser of every user who is visiting this article. Mitigation: Upgrade to Apache OFBiz 16.11.01.

Affected products

• Apache Software Foundation Apache OFBiz: 11.04, 11.04.01, 11.04.02, 11.04.03, 11.04.04, 11.04.05 (+12)

References

• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/28987cffe0237fa67eca9de8bbbc04a917ac8785342ad9e5a196c978%40%3Cuser.ofbiz.apache.org%3E
• https://s.apache.org/Owsz
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/28987cffe0237fa67eca9de8bbbc04a917ac8785342ad9e5a196c978%40%3Cuser.ofbiz.apache.org%3E
• https://s.apache.org/Owsz

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