Vigil@nce - Tenable Nessus: Cross Site Scripting
March 2017 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An authenticated attacker can trigger a Cross Site Scripting of
Tenable Nessus, in order to run JavaScript code in the context of
the web site.
Impacted products: Nessus.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 05/01/2017.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Tenable Nessus product offers a web service.
However, it does not filter received data before inserting them in
generated HTML documents.
An authenticated attacker can therefore trigger a Cross Site
Scripting of Tenable 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/Tenable-Nessus-Cross-Site-Scripting-21521