CVE-2016-9259: Tenable Nessus

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Tenable Nessus before 6.9.1 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Tenable Nessus: version 6.8 only; version 6.8.1 only; version 6.8.2 only; version 6.9 only

Published 2017-02-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.