CVE-2020-36956: Ignite Realtime Openfire

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Openfire 4.6.0 contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the nodejs plugin that allows attackers to inject malicious scripts through the 'path' parameter. Attackers can craft a payload with script tags to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the context of administrative users viewing the nodejs configuration page.

Affected products

• Ignite Realtime Openfire: up to and including 4.6.0

Published 2026-01-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.