CVE-2016-1431 Cross-site scripting in n/a

What is CVE-2016-1431?

CVE-2016-1431 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center, published on 18 Jun 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Cisco Firepower Management Center 4.10.3, 5.2.0, 5.3.0, 5.3.1, and 5.4.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted URL, aka Bug ID CSCur25516.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-1431?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center.

How do I fix CVE-2016-1431?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-1431 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2016-1431 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-1431 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center

• CVE-2026-20079 Cisco Firewall Management Center Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2026-20131 Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software and Cisco Security Cloud Control (SCC) Firewall Management Deserialization of Untrusted Data Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2026-20316 Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Use of Hard-coded Password Exploited Medium 5.3
• CVE-2025-20265 Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Software Radius Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Critical 10.0
• CVE-2024-20424 Command injection in Cisco Firepower Management Center Critical 9.9

All Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-j9gc-74m3-6459.