CVE-2005-2860: Nikto

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Nikto 1.35 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Server field in an HTTP response header, which is directly injected into an HTML report.

Affected products

• Nikto Nikto: up to and including 1.35

Published 2005-09-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.