XSS in Mybb
CVE-2015-2149
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.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
EPSS: 0.016 (73.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Mybb
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Exploit)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, Exploit, x_refsource_FULLDISC)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2015-2149?
- CVE-2015-2149 is a vulnerability in Mybb, classified under Cross-site Scripting. Published 2015-03-18.
- Is CVE-2015-2149 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.