description: Nessus versions 8.2.1 and earlier were found to contain a stored XSS vulnerability due to improper validation of user-supplied input. An authenticated, remote attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability via a specially crafted request to execute arbitrary script code in a user's browser session. Tenable has released Nessus 8.2.2 to address this issue.
problem types: Local Privilege Escalation
affected:
{
product: Tenable Nessus
vendor: Tenable
versions:
status: affected, version: All versions prior to 8.2.2
}