CVE-2016-5181: Google Chrome

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Blink in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.59 for Windows, Mac, and Linux; 54.0.2840.85 for Android permitted execution of v8 microtasks while the DOM was in an inconsistent state, which allowed a remote attacker to inject arbitrary scripts or HTML (UXSS) via crafted HTML pages.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: up to and including 53.0.2785.143

Published 2016-12-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.