VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-8934

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:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.4

Description

IBM WebSphere Application Server 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 ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.2
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.3
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.4
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.5
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.6
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.7
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.8
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.9
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.10
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.5.11
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server9.0.0.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server9.0.0.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server9.0.0.2

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.