What is CVE-2016-10744?

CVE-2016-10744 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Select2, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2019-03-27.

How severe is CVE-2016-10744?

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

Is CVE-2016-10744 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Select2

CVE-2016-10744

In Select2 through 4.0.5, as used in Snipe-IT and other products, rich selectlists allow XSS. This affects use cases with Ajax remote data loading when HTML templates are used to display listbox data.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2019-03-27 · 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: 0.018 (77.1th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 77th percentile — 77.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.022 · newest: 0.018 · change: -0.004

Affected products

Select2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

ARPSyndicate/cvemon

References

github.com/snipe/snipe-it/pull/6831 (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/select2/select2/issues/4587 (Third Party Advisory)
github.com/snipe/snipe-it/pull/6831/commits/5848d9a10c7d62c73ff6a3858edfae96a42… (Patch, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-10744?: CVE-2016-10744 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Select2, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2019-03-27.
How severe is CVE-2016-10744?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2016-10744 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.