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CVE-2016-9259

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Tenable Nessus before 6.9.1 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

  • Published: Feb 28, 2017
  • Updated: Nov 9, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2016-9259
  • Severity: Low
  • Exploit:

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 3.5
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

CWEs:

OWASP TOP 10:

Software From Fixed in
tenable / nessus 6.8 6.8.x
tenable / nessus 6.9 6.9.x
tenable / nessus 6.8.1 6.8.1.x
tenable / nessus 6.8.2 6.8.2.x