Vulnerability record · CVE-2015-6972 · published 16 September 2015

CVE-2015-6972: Igniterealtime openfire cross-site scripting vulnerability

Igniterealtime · Openfire

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Ignite Realtime Openfire 3.10.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) groupchatName parameter to plugins/clientcontrol/create-bookmark.jsp; the (2) urlName parameter to plugins/clientcontrol/create-bookmark.jsp; the (3) hostname parameter to server-session-details.jsp; or the (4) search parameter to group-summary.jsp.

4.3 CVSS 2.0 Medium EPSS 8.0% · top 5.4% CWE-79 · Cross-site scripting

4.3CVSS 2.0 base score

8.0%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days

NoNot in CISA KEV

1Affected product versions listed by NVD

8References, 4 tagged exploit

17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

Openfire Igniterealtime

References

Link	Tags
http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/AS-OPENFIRE-XSS.txt
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133558/Openfire-3.10.2-Cross-Site-Scripting.html	Exploit
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-50
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38191/	Exploit
http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/AS-OPENFIRE-XSS.txt
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133558/Openfire-3.10.2-Cross-Site-Scripting.html	Exploit
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-50
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38191/	Exploit

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2015-6972), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.