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CVE-2015-8936 json

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in squidGuard.cgi in squidGuard before 1.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script…

published 2017-02-09 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-8792

cvss
6.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 66%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in squidGuard.cgi in squidGuard before 1.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a blocked site link.

Patch / fix

  • squidguard Debian 13, Debian 12 1.5-5

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8936

  • squidGuard SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP2 1.4-29.1
  • squidGuard SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4 1.4-13.10.1
  • squidGuard SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12 SP1 1.4-27.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:1411-1SUSE-SU-2016:2510-1SUSE-SU-2016:2511-1

  • squidGuard openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.6.0-1.4

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11404-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-8936 updated cvss 4.3

squidGuard: Reflected cross site scripting vulnerability in squidGuard.cgi

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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