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CVE-2016-5148

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-5148 describes a Universal Cross-site Scripting (UXSS) vulnerability in Google Chrome's Blink rendering engine, affecting versions prior to 53.0.2785.89 on Windows/OS X and 53.0.2785.92 on Linux. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML through vectors related to widget updates, requiring user interaction. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has received some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 52.0.2743.116CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.25%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
66.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0125 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 26,219 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

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 (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: chromium-browser-0:53.0.2785.89-3.el6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-5148Important

chromium-browser: universal xss in blink

Aug 31, 2016

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00003.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00004.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00008.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00073.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-1854.html
codereview.chromium.org / 2134113002
crbug.com / 621362
googlechromereleases.blogspot.com / 2016/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_31.html
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201610-09
debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3660
securityfocus.com / bid/92717
securitytracker.com / id/1036729