CVE-2016-10735

Exp

In Bootstrap 3.x before 3.4.0 and 4.x-beta before 4.0.0-beta.2, XSS is possible in the data-target attribute, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-14041.

Published: 2019-01-09 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2016-10735 is rated High Exploit Risk (70.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 4.04%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2016-10735

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2016-10735

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-22 4.16% 4.04% -0.12%
2 2026-06-15 5.34% 4.16% -1.18%
3 2026-06-03 — 5.34% —

Full EPSS history (51 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2016-10735

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.1 3.0 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 2.8 2.7 [email protected]
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2016-10735

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2016-10735

GHSA-4p24-vmcr-4gqj · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: npm — Bootstrap Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

OS Trackers for CVE-2016-10735

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2016-10735 unimportant priority: Debian including 2 source packages (twitter-bootstrap3, twitter-bootstrap4), 10 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 10. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10735
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-10735
ubuntu low CVE-2016-10735 low priority: Ubuntu including 3 source packages (twitter-bootstrap, twitter-bootstrap3, twitter-bootstrap4), 57 status rows across 19 suites (bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 19, not-affected 18, released 15, needed 2, needs-triage 2, ignored 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10735

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2016-10735

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
getbootstrap bootstrap >= 3.0.0, < 3.4.0 cpe:2.3:a:getbootstrap:bootstrap:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
getbootstrap bootstrap 4.0.0 cpe:2.3:a:getbootstrap:bootstrap:4.0.0:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2016-10735

URL Tags
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:1076
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:1570
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1456
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3023
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0132
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0133
https://blog.getbootstrap.com/2018/12/13/bootstrap-3-4-0/ Release Notes Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/20184 Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/27915#issuecomment-452140906 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/23679 Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/23687 Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/26460 Third Party Advisory
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-14
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