VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-5942

medium
Published 2017-02-01 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
5.4
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.4

Description

IBM Kenexa LMS on Cloud is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This vulnerability allows users to embed arbitrary JavaScript code in the Web UI thus altering the intended functionality potentially leading to credentials disclosure within a trusted session.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
64%
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.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmkenexa_lms4.1
ibm ibmkenexa_lms4.2
ibm ibmkenexa_lms4.2.2
ibm ibmkenexa_lms4.2.3
ibm ibmkenexa_lms4.2.4
ibm ibmkenexa_lms5.0
ibm ibmkenexa_lms5.1
ibm ibmkenexa_lms5.2

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.