CVE-2016-9259

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-02-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Tenable Nessus before 6.9.1 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Tenable Nessus: 6.8, 6.8.1, 6.8.2, 6.9

References

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037293
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-17
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037293
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-17

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