Skip to content
Fencer Vulns
medium 6.1

CVE-2016-10245 json

Insufficient sanitization of the query parameter in templates/html/search_opensearch.php could lead to reflected cross-site scripting or if…

published 2019-05-24 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-1430

cvss
6.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.8%
EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 78%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Insufficient sanitization of the query parameter in templates/html/search_opensearch.php could lead to reflected cross-site scripting or iframe injection.

Patch / fix

  • doxygen doxygen 1.8.12
  • doxygen Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.8.12-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10245

  • doxygen Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1.8.11-1ubuntu0.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10245

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • doxygen RHEL 7 1:1.8.5-4.el7
  • doxygen-latex RHEL 7 1:1.8.5-4.el7
  • doxygen-doxywizard RHEL 7 1:1.8.5-4.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2020:1034

  • doxygen SLED 12 SP4, SLED 12 SP3, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP4 +3 more 1.8.6-3.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2019:1570-1

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-2016-10245 updated cvss 6.1

doxygen: cross-site scripting in templates/html/search_opensearch.php

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) doxygen 1.8.5-4.el7, doxygen-latex 1.8.5-4.el7, doxygen-doxywizard 1.8.5-4.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) doxygen 1.8.5-4.el7, doxygen-latex 1.8.5-4.el7, doxygen-doxywizard 1.8.5-4.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) doxygen 1.8.5-4.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) doxygen-latex 1.8.5-4.el7, doxygen-doxywizard 1.8.5-4.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) doxygen 1.8.5-4.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) doxygen-latex 1.8.5-4.el7, doxygen-doxywizard 1.8.5-4.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:1034
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 doxygen Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 doxygen, doxygen-doxywizard Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 doxygen, doxygen-latex, doxygen-doxywizard
    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

1.82% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

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

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.