CVE-2013-3565 — Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the HTTP Interface in VideoLAN VLC Media Player before 2.0.7 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) command parameter to requests/vlm_cmd.xml, (2) dir parameter to requests/browse.xml, or (3) URI in a request, which is returned in an error message through share/lua/intf/http.lua

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Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the HTTP Interface in VideoLAN VLC Media Player before 2.0.7 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) command parameter to requests/vlm_cmd.xml, (2) dir parameter to requests/browse.xml, or (3) URI in a request, which is returned in an error message through share/lua/intf/http.lua

Published Jan 31, 2020

6.1

MEDIUM

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 1.58%

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the HTTP Interface in VideoLAN VLC Media Player before 2.0.7 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) command parameter to requests/vlm_cmd.xml, (2) dir parameter to requests/browse.xml, or (3) URI in a request, which is returned in an error message through share/lua/intf/http.lua.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.58% 0.01583

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01583

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (12 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.58% (0.01583)	74.66th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.54% (0.01544)	71.64th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.39% (0.00394)	58.21th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.24% (0.00243)	64.84th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Apr 20, 2024	0.24% (0.00243)	64.04th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Nov 8, 2023	0.24% (0.00243)	62.04th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
May 8, 2023	0.23% (0.00230)	59.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.17% (0.00168)	52.00th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.21% (0.01213)	66.61th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 17, 2023	1.21% (0.01213)	66.22th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.21% (0.01213)	64.21th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.21% (0.01213)	40.54th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (4)

http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/vlc.git/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=bf02b8dd211d5a52aa301a9a2ff4e73ed8195881
x_refsource_MISC
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00001.html
x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc-branch/NEWS
x_refsource_MISCRelease Notes
https://www3.trustwave.com/spiderlabs/advisories/TWSL2013-007.txt
x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/vlc.git/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=bf02b8dd211d5a52aa301a9a2ff4e73ed8195881		x_refsource_MISC
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00001.html		x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc-branch/NEWS		x_refsource_MISCRelease Notes
https://www3.trustwave.com/spiderlabs/advisories/TWSL2013-007.txt		x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jan 31, 2020

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved May 21, 2013

Link CVE-2013-3565

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2013-3565

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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