What is CVE-2019-8279?

CVE-2019-8279 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Kaspersky Lab Vanilla Forums, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2019-03-02.

How severe is CVE-2019-8279?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

XSS in Kaspersky Lab Vanilla Forums

CVE-2019-8279

Multiple stored XSS in Vanilla Forums before 2.5 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary JavaScript code into any message on forum.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.008 (52.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Kaspersky Lab Vanilla Forums — versions Before 2.5
Vanillaforums Vanilla_forums

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

vulnerability@kaspersky.com (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-8279?: CVE-2019-8279 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Kaspersky Lab Vanilla Forums, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2019-03-02.
How severe is CVE-2019-8279?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.