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CVE-2016-10245

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-10245 describes a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) or iframe injection vulnerability in Doxygen, specifically within the templates/html/search_opensearch.php component, due to insufficient sanitization of the query parameter. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, requiring user interaction, and could lead to limited confidentiality and integrity impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, indicating a low current threat landscape.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.8.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:doxygen:doxygen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.1MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.82%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0182 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 26,209 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: doxygen-1:1.8.5-4.el7
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-10245Low

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

May 24, 2019

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00000.html
bugzilla.gnome.org / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
github.com / doxygen/doxygen/commit/1cc1adad2de03a0f013881b8960daf89aa155081
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00046.html
usn.ubuntu.com / 4002-1
securityfocus.com / bid/108476
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
stack.nl / ~dimitri/doxygen/manual/changelog.html
Broken Link