What is CVE-2016-3971?

CVE-2016-3971 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Dotcms, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2016-04-18.

How severe is CVE-2016-3971?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.

XSS in Dotcms

CVE-2016-3971

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in lucene_search.jsp in dotCMS before 3.5.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the query parameter to c/portal/layout.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.007 (47.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Dotcms
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, Exploit, x_refsource_FULLDISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-3971?: CVE-2016-3971 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Dotcms, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2016-04-18.
How severe is CVE-2016-3971?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.