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Vulnerability details: VCID-3hsn-22rw-7kay
Vulnerability ID VCID-3hsn-22rw-7kay
Aliases CVE-2016-5682
GHSA-p239-93f7-h6xf
Summary Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Swagger-UI before 2.2.1 has XSS via the Default field in the Definitions section.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 9.0
Risk 4.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
cvssv3 5.4 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2016-5682.json
epss 0.00279 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-5682
generic_textual CRITICAL https://community.rapid7.com/community/infosec/blog/2016/09/02/r7-2016-19-persistent-xss-via-unescaped-parameters-in-swagger-ui
generic_textual CRITICAL https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-ui
generic_textual CRITICAL https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-ui/issues/1865
generic_textual CRITICAL https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5682
generic_textual CRITICAL https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/126
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2016-5682.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-5682
https://community.rapid7.com/community/infosec/blog/2016/09/02/r7-2016-19-persistent-xss-via-unescaped-parameters-in-swagger-ui
https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-ui
https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-ui/issues/1865
https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/126
1443546 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1443546
CVE-2016-5682 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5682
GHSA-p239-93f7-h6xf https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p239-93f7-h6xf
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2016-5682.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.5156
EPSS Score 0.00279
Published At June 4, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-04T16:20:14.351837+00:00 GitLab Importer Import https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/npm/swagger-ui/CVE-2016-5682.yml 38.6.0