CVE-2016-6800

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Published 2017-08-30 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.1
CVSS:3.0/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
6.1

Description

The default configuration of the Apache OFBiz framework offers a blog functionality. Different users are able to operate blogs which are related to specific parties. In the form field for the creation of new blog articles the user input of the summary field as well as the article field is not properly sanitized. It is possible to inject arbitrary JavaScript code in these form fields. This code gets executed from the browser of every user who is visiting this article. Mitigation: Upgrade to Apache OFBiz 16.11.01.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
71%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
apache apacheofbiz11.04
apache apacheofbiz11.04.01
apache apacheofbiz11.04.02
apache apacheofbiz11.04.03
apache apacheofbiz11.04.04
apache apacheofbiz11.04.05
apache apacheofbiz11.04.06
apache apacheofbiz12.04
apache apacheofbiz12.04.01
apache apacheofbiz12.04.02
apache apacheofbiz12.04.03
apache apacheofbiz12.04.04
apache apacheofbiz12.04.05
apache apacheofbiz12.04.06
apache apacheofbiz13.07
apache apacheofbiz13.07.01
apache apacheofbiz13.07.02
apache apacheofbiz13.07.03

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.