CVE-2020-36956

5.1 mediumEPSS 0.3%

Medium (5.1). EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Openfire 4.6.0 contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the nodejs plugin that allows attackers to inject malicious scripts through the 'path' parameter. Attackers can craft a payload with script tags to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the context of administrative users viewing the nodejs configuration page.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

5.1 medium

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

CVSS 3.1

6.4 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 20% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-79
Published: 2026-01-26
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://github.com/igniterealtime/Openfire
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49229
https://www.igniterealtime.org/downloads/
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openfire-path-stored-xss

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