What is CVE-2016-10699?

CVE-2016-10699 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Dlink Dsl-2740e, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-10-31.

How severe is CVE-2016-10699?

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

XSS in Dlink Dsl-2740e

CVE-2016-10699

D-Link DSL-2740E 1.00_BG_20150720 devices are prone to persistent XSS attacks in the username and password fields: a remote unauthenticated user may craft logins and passwords with script tags in them. Because there is no sanitization in the input fields, an unaware logged-in administrator may be a victim when checking the router logs.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.014 (69.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Dlink Dsl-2740e
Dlink Dsl-2740e_firmware — versions 1.00_bg_20150720
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-10699?: CVE-2016-10699 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Dlink Dsl-2740e, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-10-31.
How severe is CVE-2016-10699?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.