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CVE-2016-9260

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-01-31 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Tenable Nessus before 6.9 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to handling of .nessus files.

Affected products

• Tenable Nessus: through 6.8.1

References

• http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN12796388/index.html
• http://jvndb.jvn.jp/en/contents/2017/JVNDB-2017-000013.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95772
• https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-16
• http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN12796388/index.html
• http://jvndb.jvn.jp/en/contents/2017/JVNDB-2017-000013.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95772
• https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-16

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