What is CVE-2016-1236?

CVE-2016-1236 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Websvn, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2016-05-11.

How severe is CVE-2016-1236?

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

XSS in Websvn

CVE-2016-1236

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in (1) revision.php, (2) log.php, (3) listing.php, and (4) comp.php in WebSVN allow context-dependent attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the name of a (a) file or (b) directory in a repository.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2016-05-11 · 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: 0.009 (56.9th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 57th percentile — 56.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.009 · newest: 0.009 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Websvn
Debian Linux — versions 8.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/05/22 (mailing-list)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3572 (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-1236?: CVE-2016-1236 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Websvn, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2016-05-11.
How severe is CVE-2016-1236?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.