CVE-2016-8634: Theforeman Foreman

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

A vulnerability was found in foreman 1.14.0. When creating an organization or location in Foreman, if the name contains HTML then the second step of the wizard (/organizations/id/step2) will render the HTML. This occurs in the alertbox on the page. The result is a stored XSS attack if an organization/location with HTML in the name is created, then a user is linked directly to this URL.

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Published 2018-08-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.