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CVE-2016-6186
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the dismissChangeRelatedObjectPopup function in…
Medium6.1EPSS 5.6%
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- Updated
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- mitre
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the dismissChangeRelatedObjectPopup function in contrib/admin/static/admin/js/admin/RelatedObjectLookups.js in Django before 1.8.14, 1.9.x before 1.9.8, and 1.10.x before 1.10rc1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving unsafe usage of Element.innerHTML.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.6% · top 7.1% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIDjangoGHSA-c8c8-9472-w52h (opens in a new tab)
References (17)
- 1036338 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 20160719 Django CMS v3.3.0 - (Editor Snippet) Persistent Web Vulnerability (CVE-2016-6186) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:1594 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- DSA-3622 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-97ca9d52a4 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=1869 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20160719 Django CMS v3.3.0 - (Editor Snippet) Persistent Web Vulnerability (CVE-2016-6186) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/137965/Django-3.3.0-Script-Insertion.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- USN-3039-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-b7e31a0b9a (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/f68e5a99164867ab0e071a936470958ed867479d (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:1596 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2016/jul/18/security-releases/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/d03bf6fe4e9bf5b07de62c1a271c4b41a7d3d158 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 92058 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:1595 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 40129 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-c8c8-9472-w52h (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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