CVE-2016-2901: IBM Web Content Manager

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the PA_Theme_Creator application in IBM WebSphere Portal 8.5 CF08 through CF10 and Web Content Manager allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that insert XSS sequences.

Affected products

• IBM Web Content Manager: any version
• IBM WebSphere Portal: version 8.5.0.0 only

Published 2016-06-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.