Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-4847

Title: Ossec Web Ui Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-4847.

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Apr 20, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.1 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.51%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-4847: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in site/search.php in OSSEC Web UI before 0.9 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by leveraging an unanchored regex.

Impacted Vendors

tenable 1

ossec 1

Reference Links

http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN58455472/index.html http://jvndb.jvn.jp/en/contents/2016/JVNDB-2016-000141.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92536 https://github.com/ossec/ossec-wui/commit/b4dcbba7a8eb09ba9d38fc69807a8861255736d0 http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN58455472/index.html http://jvndb.jvn.jp/en/contents/2016/JVNDB-2016-000141.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92536 https://github.com/ossec/ossec-wui/commit/b4dcbba7a8eb09ba9d38fc69807a8861255736d0

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.1

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

CHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns