CVE-2016-20098

Moderator Toolbox before 4.0.14 Stored XSS via Removal Reasons Configuration

State: Published
Severity: 5.1 Medium
Published: Oct 9, 2026
Updated: Oct 9, 2026
Reserved: Oct 9, 2026

Description

Moderator Toolbox (reddit-moderator-toolbox) before 4.0.14 contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the removalreasons module, which inserts subreddit toolbox wiki fields into popup HTML without encoding. Attackers who can edit the toolbox wiki page can plant JavaScript in fields like pmsubject, header, or reason titles to act with moderators' Reddit sessions.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	5.1 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N	VulnCheck
3.1	5.4 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N	VulnCheck

Weaknesses

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
reddit-moderator-toolboxtoolbox-team	before 4.0.14Affected 4.0.14Not affected

References

Patch Commitpatch
https://github.com/toolbox-team/reddit-moderator-toolboxproduct
VulnCheck Advisory: Moderator Toolbox before 4.0.14 Stored XSS via Removal Reasons Configurationthird-party-advisory

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