CVE-2016-4651

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Published 2016-07-22 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

6.1

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.1

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the WebKit JavaScript bindings in Apple iOS before 9.3.3 and Safari before 9.1.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted HTTP/0.9 response, related to a "cross-protocol cross-site scripting (XPXSS)" vulnerability.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

71%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
macos		affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
apple	safari	`{"endIncluding":"9.1.1"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.