What is CVE-2015-3948?

CVE-2015-3948 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Advantech Webaccess, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2016-01-15.

How severe is CVE-2015-3948?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

XSS in Advantech Webaccess

CVE-2015-3948

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Advantech WebAccess before 8.1 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2016-01-15 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.010 (60.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 60th percentile — 60.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.010 · newest: 0.010 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Advantech Webaccess

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-16-014-01 (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-3948?: CVE-2015-3948 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Advantech Webaccess, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2016-01-15.
How severe is CVE-2015-3948?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.