CVE-2016-7463: VMware ESXi

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Host Client in VMware vSphere Hypervisor (aka ESXi) 5.5 and 6.0 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted VM.

Affected products

• VMware ESXi: version 5.5 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2016-12-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.