Medium
Security advisory
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Serendipity before 2.0.5 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a category or directory name.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2016-9681
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:48 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Serendipity before 2.0.5 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a category or directory name.
osv:CVE-2016-9681
Complete source record
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