CVE-2016-9681

MEDIUM 5.4CVE-2016-9681 · Published 25/12/2016 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-9681 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.4) vulnerability affecting serendipity (s9y).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.3%, higher than 70.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
serendipity s9y	`≤ 2.0.4`	No fix yet

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Serendipity before 2.0.5 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a category or directory name.

References

securityfocus.com/bid/95095 · Third Party Advisory
s9y/Serendipity commit e2a665e · Patch
smarterbitbybit.com/cve-2016-9681-serendipity-cms-xss-vulnerability-in-version-2-0-4 · Exploit

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

serendipity

s9y

≤ 2.0.4

No fix yet

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