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nikto — security advisory
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Nikto 1.35 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Server field in an HTTP response header, which is directly injected into an HTML report.
- Products
- nikto
- Affected versions
- 1.32-1, 1.34-1, 1.35-1
- Fixed versions
- 1.35-1.1
- CVEs
- CVE-2005-2860
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 20:47 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Nikto 1.35 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Server field in an HTTP response header, which is directly injected into an HTML report.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2005-2860
nikto
Fixed versions: 1.35-1.1
nikto
Fixed versions: 1.35-1.1
nikto
Fixed versions: 1.35-1.1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-23T03:47:40.784317805Z",
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