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CVE-2016-7463

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-7463 is a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Host Client in VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) versions 5.5 and 6.0. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.4) allows remote authenticated users to inject malicious web script or HTML through a specially crafted virtual machine, potentially leading to limited impact on confidentiality and integrity. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or Metasploit modules, the vulnerability has received minimal community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.4MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.3
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.13%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
63.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0113 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 15,224 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

vmwarepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

securityfocus.com / bid/94998
securitytracker.com / id/1037501
vmware.com / security/advisories/VMSA-2016-0023.html
PatchVendor Advisory