Medium severity5.4NVD Advisory· Published Dec 29, 2016· Updated May 6, 2026

CVE-2016-7463

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Host Client in VMware vSphere Hypervisor (aka ESXi) 5.5 and 6.0 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted VM.

Affected products

VMware/Esxi2 versions
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2016-0023.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
www.securityfocus.com/bid/94998nvd
www.securitytracker.com/id/1037501nvd

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