CVE-2016-5394

Description

In the XSS Protection API module before 1.0.12 in Apache Sling, the encoding done by the XSSAPI.encodeForJSString() method is not restrictive enough and for some input patterns allows script tags to pass through unencoded, leading to potential XSS vulnerabilities.

Risk Information

Base Score

6.1

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

1.094

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Vulnerabilities CVE-2016-6798,CVE-2016-5394 are fixed in Apache-org.apache.sling.xss 1.0.12	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2016-6798,CVE-2016-5394 are fixed in Apache-org.apache.sling.xss.compat 1.1.0	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2016-6798,CVE-2016-5394 are fixed in Apache-org.apache.sling.xss for Linux 1.0.12	Linux
Vulnerabilities CVE-2016-6798,CVE-2016-5394 are fixed in Apache-org.apache.sling.xss.compat for Linux 1.1.0	Linux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234