CVE-2016-2901 — Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the PA_Theme_Creator application in IBM WebSphere Portal 8.5 CF08 through CF10 and Web Content Manager allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that insert XSS sequences

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HIGH

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the PA_Theme_Creator application in IBM WebSphere Portal 8.5 CF08 through CF10 and Web Content Manager allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that insert XSS sequences

Published Jun 26, 2016

8.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 0.92%

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the PA_Theme_Creator application in IBM WebSphere Portal 8.5 CF08 through CF10 and Web Content Manager allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that insert XSS sequences.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.92% 0.00919

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

EPSS probability 0.00919

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 (9 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.92% (0.00919)	58.81th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.92% (0.00919)	55.41th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.12% (0.00117)	28.03th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.09% (0.00093)	41.32th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.09% (0.00093)	38.09th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.14% (0.01136)	59.45th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Oct 18, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	58.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	56.27th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	34.23th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-352

CSRF

References (3)

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PI62594
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPAR
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21983974
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036143
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PI62594		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPAR
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21983974		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036143		vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner ibm

Published Jun 26, 2016

Updated Aug 5, 2024

Reserved Mar 9, 2016

Link CVE-2016-2901

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2016-2901

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2016-2901