CVE-2016-7851

medium
Published 2016-11-08 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
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
7.1

Description

Adobe Connect version 9.5.6 and earlier does not adequately validate input in the events registration module. This vulnerability could be exploited in cross-site scripting attacks.

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 โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-40742 webapps windows verified
Vulnerability-Lab ยท 2016-11-09

Adobe Connect 9.5.7 - Cross-Site Scripting

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
adobe adobeconnect{"endIncluding":"9.5.6"}

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.