What is CVE-2015-8756?

CVE-2015-8756 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Typo3, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2016-01-08.

How severe is CVE-2015-8756?

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

XSS in Typo3

CVE-2015-8756

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the search result view in the Indexed Search (indexed_search) component in TYPO3 6.2.x before 6.2.16 allows remote authenticated editors to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.008 (52.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Typo3 — versions 6.2, 6.2.0, 6.2.1
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-8756?: CVE-2015-8756 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Typo3, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2016-01-08.
How severe is CVE-2015-8756?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.