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Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Request Tracker (RT) 4.x before 4.0.25, 4.2.x before 4.2.14, and 4.4.x before 4.4.2, when the AlwaysDownloadAttachments config setting is not in use, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a file upload with an unspecified content type.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-6127
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:41 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Request Tracker (RT) 4.x before 4.0.25, 4.2.x before 4.2.14, and 4.4.x before 4.4.2, when the AlwaysDownloadAttachments config setting is not in use, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a file upload with an unspecified content type.
osv:CVE-2016-6127
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:43.182369631Z",
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