CVE-2016-9259 (GCVE-0-2016-9259)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-02-28 18:00
Modified
2024-08-06 02:42
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Tenable Nessus before 6.9.1 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.
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