What is CVE-2015-9286?

CVE-2015-9286 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Nodebb, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2019-04-30.

How severe is CVE-2015-9286?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

XSS in Nodebb

CVE-2015-9286

Controllers.outgoing in controllers/index.js in NodeBB before 0.7.3 has outgoing XSS.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2019-04-30 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.014 (70.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 71st percentile — 70.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.014 · newest: 0.014 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Nodebb

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
vulners.com/securityvulns/SECURITYVULNS:DOC:32625 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/pull/3371 (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/compare/56b79a9...4de7529 (Third Party Advisory, Release Notes)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-9286?: CVE-2015-9286 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Nodebb, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2019-04-30.
How severe is CVE-2015-9286?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.