CVE-2017-16856 (GCVE-0-2017-16856)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-12-05 16:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 23:10
VLAI
Summary
The RSS Feed macro in Atlassian Confluence before version 6.5.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or JavaScript via cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in various rss properties which were used as links without restriction on their scheme.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Atlassian Confluence Affected: All versions prior to version 6.5.2
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Date Public
2017-12-05 00:00
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