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Nessus 8.10.0 and earlier were found to contain a Stored XSS vulnerability due to improper validation of input during scan configuration

Published Jul 15, 2020

Description

Nessus 8.10.0 and earlier were found to contain a Stored XSS vulnerability due to improper validation of input during scan configuration. An authenticated, remote attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code in a user's session. Tenable has implemented additional input validation mechanisms to correct this issue in Nessus 8.11.0.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (2)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner tenable
Published Jul 15, 2020
Updated Aug 4, 2024
Reserved Jan 6, 2020
Link CVE-2020-5765
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2020-5765
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2020-5765
ENISA EUVD
Assigner tenable
Published Jul 15, 2020
Updated Aug 4, 2024
Exploited since n/a
Link EUVD-2020-26924
EUVD-2020-26924