CVE-2016-5208: Google Chrome

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Blink in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Linux and Windows, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android allowed possible corruption of the DOM tree during synchronous event handling, which allowed a remote attacker to inject arbitrary scripts or HTML (UXSS) via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: up to and including 54.0.2840.99

Published 2017-01-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.