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

CVE-2015-2149

Low
3.5/10

Summary

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the administrative backend in MyBB (aka MyBulletinBoard) before 1.8.4 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) MIME-type field in an add action in the config-attachment_types module to admin/index.php; (2) title or (3) short description field in an add action in the (a) config-mycode or (b) user-groups module to admin/index.php; (4) title field in an add action in the (c) forum-management or (d) tool-tasks module to admin/index.php; (5) name field in an add_set action in the style-templates module to admin/index.php; (6) title field in an add_template_group action in the style-templates module to admin/index.php; (7) name field in an add action in the config-post_icons module to admin/index.php; (8) "title to assign" field in an add action in the user-titles module to admin/index.php; or (9) username field in the config-banning module to admin/index.php.

  • MEDIUM
  • NETWORK
  • SINGLE
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE
  • NONE

CWE-79 - Cross Site Scripting

Cross-Site Scripting, commonly referred to as XSS, is the most dominant class of vulnerabilities. It allows an attacker to inject malicious code into a pregnable web application and victimize its users. The exploitation of such a weakness can cause severe issues such as account takeover, and sensitive data exfiltration. Because of the prevalence of XSS vulnerabilities and their high rate of exploitation, it has remained in the OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities for years.

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  • Published