Name: CVE-2016-4561: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2016-05-10T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2016-4561, CWE-79, CVSS 6.1, EPSS 0.00296

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.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.0 Base Score: 6.1
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade ikiwiki	May 18, 2016	May 8, 2016
Freebsd	—	Upgrade ikiwiki	Dec 10, 2025	Jun 5, 2016
Ubuntu	—	No solution exists	Jun 26, 2025	May 10, 2016

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CVSS Details

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