CVE-2020-16270
OLIMPOKS before 5.1.0 allows Auth/Admin ErrorMessage XSS.
OLIMPOKS under 3.3.39 allows Auth/Admin ErrorMessage XSS. Remote Attacker can use discovered vulnerability to inject malicious JavaScript payload to victim’s browsers in context of vulnerable applications. Executed code can be used to steal administrator’s cookies, influence HTML content of targeted application and perform phishing-related attacks. Vulnerable application used in more than 3000 organizations in different sectors from retail to industries.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- Required
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
OLIMPOKS under 3.3.39 allows Auth/Admin ErrorMessage XSS. Remote Attacker can use discovered vulnerability to inject malicious JavaScript payload to victim’s browsers in context of vulnerable applications. Executed code can be used to steal administrator’s cookies, influence HTML content of targeted application and perform phishing-related attacks. Vulnerable application used in more than 3000 organizations in different sectors from retail to industries.
- Record
CVE-2020-16270- CVSS 3.1
- 6.1 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - CVSS 2.0
- 4.3 Medium
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
OLIMPOKS under 3.3.39 allows Auth/Admin ErrorMessage XSS. Remote Attacker can use discovered vulnerability to inject malicious JavaScript payload to victim’s browsers in context of vulnerable applications. Executed code can be used to steal administrator’s cookies, influence HTML content of targeted application and perform phishing-related attacks. Vulnerable application used in more than 3000 organizations in different sectors from retail to industries.
- Record
CVE-2020-16270- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2020-8231 No score
OLIMPOKS under 3.3.39 allows Auth/Admin ErrorMessage XSS. Remote Attacker can use discovered vulnerability to inject malicious JavaScript payload to victim’s browsers in context of vulnerable applications. Executed code can be used to steal administrator’s cookies, influence HTML content of targeted application and perform phishing-related attacks. Vulnerable application used in more than 3000 organizations in different sectors from retail to industries.
- Record
EUVD-2020-8231- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-cj2q-qhr6-c9q2 No score
OLIMPOKS before 5.1.0 allows Auth/Admin ErrorMessage XSS.
OLIMPOKS before 5.1.0 allows Auth/Admin ErrorMessage XSS.
- Record
GHSA-cj2q-qhr6-c9q2- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Public exploits
Links only. Every CVE stores no exploit code.
| Source | Link | Date |
|---|---|---|
| PoC in GitHub | Security-AVS/CVE-2020-16270 | 2020-10-15 |
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| facts | ||
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, PoC in GitHub |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2020-16270 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) in Olimpoks Olimpok, published October 16, 2020. Public exploit code exists. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 13.1%, the 96th percentile. No source names a fixed version.