Medium severity5.4NVD Advisory· Published Feb 28, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026

CVE-2016-9259

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Tenable Nessus before 6.9.1 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Tenable/Nessus4 versions
cpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus:6.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 3 more
- cpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus:6.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus:6.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus:6.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus:6.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-17nvdPatchVendor Advisory
www.securitytracker.com/id/1037293nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

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