PT-2016-7228 · Dnn · Dotnetnuke

Ciaran Mcnally · Published 2016-08-31 · Updated 2018-10-16 · CVE-2016-7119

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.4

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions DotNetNuke (DNN) versions prior to 8.0.1

Description The issue is related to a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the user-profile biography section. This allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted onclick attribute in an IMG element.

Recommendations For versions prior to 8.0.1, update to version 8.0.1 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the user-profile biography section until the update is applied.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-7119

GHSA-5C66-X4WM-RJFX

Affected Products

Dotnetnuke

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7119 · Security Note
• http://dnnsoftware.com/community/security/security-center · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-5c66-x4wm-rjfx · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-7119 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5c66-x4wm-rjfx · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/92719 · Note