CVE-2016-15008
Published: 04 January 2023
Summary
CVE-2016-15008 is a low-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Coebot-Www Project Coebot-Www. Its CVSS base score is 3.5 (Low).
Operationally, ranked at the 48.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2016-2081
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability was found in oxguy3 coebot-www and classified as problematic. This issue affects the function displayChannelCommands/displayChannelQuotes/displayChannelAutoreplies/showChannelHighlights/showChannelBoir of the file js/channel.js. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. The attack may be initiated remotely. The patch is named c1a6c44092585da4236237e0e7da94ee2996a0ca. It…
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is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-217355.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.