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FreeBSD: ikiwiki -- XSS vulnerability (CVE-2016-4561)

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FreeBSD: ikiwiki -- XSS vulnerability (CVE-2016-4561)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
05/10/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/06/2016
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-ikiwiki

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