What is CVE-2016-4561?

CVE-2016-4561 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ikiwiki, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2016-05-10.

How severe is CVE-2016-4561?

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

XSS in Ikiwiki

CVE-2016-4561

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the cgierror function in CGI.pm in ikiwiki before 3.20160506 might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors involving an error message.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.015 (71.0th 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

Ikiwiki
Debian Debian_linux — versions 8.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

security@debian.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
security@debian.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
security@debian.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-4561?: CVE-2016-4561 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ikiwiki, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2016-05-10.
How severe is CVE-2016-4561?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.