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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 52.0.2743.116CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
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.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.