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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2016-4988

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Build Failure Analyzer plugin before 1.16.0 in Jenkins allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an unspecified parameter.

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CVE-2016-4988
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1 Nov 2026, 06:20 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2016-4988

core-osv · Original source

Published 9 Feb 2017, 15:59 UTC

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Build Failure Analyzer plugin before 1.16.0 in Jenkins allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an unspecified parameter.

osv:CVE-2016-4988
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-4988",
  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Build Failure Analyzer plugin before 1.16.0 in Jenkins allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an unspecified parameter.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-4988",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:38.175890873Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://jenkins.io/security/advisory/2016-06-20/",
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 434379,
  "published_at": "2017-02-09T15:59:01.097+00:00"
}