What is CVE-2016-1229?

CVE-2016-1229 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Humhub, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2016-06-05.

How severe is CVE-2016-1229?

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

XSS in Humhub

CVE-2016-1229

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in HumHub 0.20.0-beta.1 through 0.20.1 and 1.0.0-beta before 1.0.0-beta.3 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2016-06-05 · 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: 0.011 (65.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 65th percentile — 65.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Humhub — versions 0.20.0, 0.20.1, 1.0.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2016-000068 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN56167268/index.html (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
github.com/humhub/humhub/releases/tag/v1.0.0-beta.3 (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-1229?: CVE-2016-1229 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Humhub, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2016-06-05.
How severe is CVE-2016-1229?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.