VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-2279

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Published 2016-03-02 · Modified 2026-06-03
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CVSS v3
6.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.1

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the web server in Rockwell Automation Allen-Bradley CompactLogix 1769-L* before 28.011+ allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
100%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-44626 webapps windows
t4rkd3vilz · 2018-05-16

Rockwell Scada System 27.011 - Cross-Site Scripting

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
rockwellautomationcompactlogix_1769-l16er-bb1b-
rockwellautomationcompactlogix_1769-l18er-bb1b-
rockwellautomationcompactlogix_1769-l18erm-bb1b-
rockwellautomationcompactlogix_1769-l24er-qb1b-
rockwellautomationcompactlogix_1769-l24er-qbfc1b-
rockwellautomationcompactlogix_1769-l27erm-qbfc1b-
rockwellautomationcompactlogix_1769-l30er-
rockwellautomationcompactlogix_1769-l30erm-
rockwellautomationcompactlogix_1769-l30er-nse-
rockwellautomationcompactlogix_1769-l33er-
rockwellautomationcompactlogix_1769-l33erm-
rockwellautomationcompactlogix_1769-l36erm-
rockwellautomationcompactlogix_1769-l23e-qb1b-
rockwellautomationcompactlogix_1769-l23e-qbfc1b-
rockwellautomationcompactlogix_1756-en2f_series_a-
rockwellautomationcompactlogix_1756-en2f_series_b-
rockwellautomationcompactlogix_1756-en2t_series_a-
rockwellautomationcompactlogix_1756-en2t_series_b-
rockwellautomationcompactlogix_1756-en2t_series_c-
rockwellautomationcompactlogix_1756-en2t_series_d-
rockwellautomationcompactlogix_1756-en2tr_series_a-
rockwellautomationcompactlogix_1756-en2tr_series_b-
rockwellautomationcompactlogix_1756-en3tr_series_a-

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.