Vigil@nce - Nessus: Cross Site Scripting
January 2017 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Scripting of Nessus, in order
to run JavaScript code in the context of the web site.
Impacted products: Nessus.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 10/11/2016.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Nessus product offers a web service.
However, it does not filter received data before inserting them in
generated HTML documents.
An attacker can therefore trigger a Cross Site Scripting of
Nessus, in order to run JavaScript code in the context of the web
site.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Nessus-Cross-Site-Scripting-21092