Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in AlienVault OSSIM before 5.3 and USM before 5.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web s

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• alienvault open source security information and event managementup to 5.2 inclusive
• alienvault unified security managementup to 5.2 inclusive

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2016-8582A vulnerability exists in gauge.php of AlienVault OSSIM and USM before 5.3.2 that allows an attacker to execute an arbitrary SQL query and r
  56Plan
• CVE-2016-8580PHP object injection vulnerabilities exist in multiple widget files in AlienVault OSSIM and USM before 5.3.2.
  41Plan
• CVE-2016-8581A persistent XSS vulnerability exists in the User-Agent header of the login process of AlienVault OSSIM and USM before 5.3.2 that allows an
  29Monitor
• CVE-2016-8583Multiple GET parameters in the vulnerability scan scheduler of AlienVault OSSIM and USM before 5.3.2 are vulnerable to reflected XSS.
  24Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

User content is inserted into the page as HTML. The browser interprets the content as code rather than data.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1commentEl.innerHTML = comment.body;

1commentEl.textContent = comment.body;

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.