Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the user-profile biography section in DotNetNuke (DNN)

MEDIUM 5.4CVE-2016-7119 · GHSA-5c66-x4wm-rjfx · Published 31/08/2016 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-7119 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.4) vulnerability affecting DotNetNuke.Core, dotnetnuke (dnnsoftware).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.66%, higher than 51.5% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 8.0.1 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
DotNetNuke.Core NuGet	`< 8.0.1`	`8.0.1`
dotnetnuke dnnsoftware	`≤ 08.00.04`	No fix yet

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the user-profile biography section in DotNetNuke (DNN) before 8.0.1 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted onclick attribute in an IMG element.

NVD description

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7119 · ADVISORY
GitHub Advisory GHSA-5c66-x4wm-rjfx · ADVISORY
dnnsoftware.com/community/security/security-center · WEB
securityfocus.com/bid/92719 · WEB

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

DotNetNuke.Core

NuGet

< 8.0.1

8.0.1

dotnetnuke

dnnsoftware

≤ 08.00.04

No fix yet

Description

NVD description

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