{"id":"CVE-2016-8634","details":"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.","modified":"2026-07-08T12:27:42.089354Z","published":"2018-08-01T12:29:00.413Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94206"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://projects.theforeman.org/issues/17195"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8634"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/theforeman/foreman","events":[{"introduced":"d09ddb013d43aa016517aff75a4b154c101e31cc"},{"last_affected":"d09ddb013d43aa016517aff75a4b154c101e31cc"}],"database_specific":{"cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:theforeman:foreman:1.14.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","extracted_events":[{"introduced":"1.14.0"},{"last_affected":"1.14.0"}],"source":"CPE_STRING"}}],"versions":["1.14.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8634.json"}},{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-installer","events":[{"introduced":"774f088100e4aa0ff91dd2ef7d70a595126de030"},{"last_affected":"774f088100e4aa0ff91dd2ef7d70a595126de030"}],"database_specific":{"cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:theforeman:foreman:1.14.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","extracted_events":[{"introduced":"1.14.0"},{"last_affected":"1.14.0"}],"source":"CPE_STRING"}}],"versions":["1.14.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8634.json"}},{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/theforeman/smart-proxy","events":[{"introduced":"7ed9a97025cbe88bba7bbaaf01c719bc3ac9a37d"},{"last_affected":"7ed9a97025cbe88bba7bbaaf01c719bc3ac9a37d"}],"database_specific":{"cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:theforeman:foreman:1.14.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","extracted_events":[{"introduced":"1.14.0"},{"last_affected":"1.14.0"}],"source":"CPE_STRING"}}],"versions":["1.14.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8634.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"}]}