CVE-2016-5394

2017-07-1800:00:00

redhat

www.cve.org

6.1 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

30.5%

JSON

In the XSS Protection API module before 1.0.12 in Apache Sling, the encoding done by the XSSAPI.encodeForJSString() method is not restrictive enough and for some input patterns allows script tags to pass through unencoded, leading to potential XSS vulnerabilities.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "Apache Sling",
    "vendor": "Apache Software Foundation",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "prior to 1.0.12"
      }
    ]
  }
]