{"id":"CVE-2015-8398","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2015-8398","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:44:25.056Z","title":"Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence before 5.8.17 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the PATH_INFO to rest/prototype/1/session/check.","description":"Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence before 5.8.17 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the PATH_INFO to rest/prototype/1/session/check.","published":"2016-04-11T21:59:10.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:34:28.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":6.1,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-79"],"affected":["atlassian/confluence"],"epss":{"score":0.02046,"percentile":0.81066,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":1,"verified":false,"firstPublished":"2016-01-05","source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[{"edbId":39170,"kind":"exploit","title":"Atlassian Confluence 5.2/5.8.14/5.8.15 - Multiple Vulnerabilities","url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39170","sourceUrl":"https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/xml/webapps/39170.txt","file":"exploits/xml/webapps/39170.txt","published":"2016-01-05","added":"2016-01-05","updated":"2016-01-05","author":"Sebastian Perez","type":"webapps","platform":"xml","port":null,"verified":false,"codes":["CVE-2015-8399","CVE-2015-8398","OSVDB-132584","OSVDB-132583"],"tags":null,"aliases":null,"applicationUrl":null,"screenshotUrl":null,"referenceUrl":null}]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB, so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 2.0%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/537232/100/0/threaded","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39170/","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/537232/100/0/threaded","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39170/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8398","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}