Vulnerability in Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board

CVE-2021-39249

Invision Community (aka IPS Community Suite or IP-Board) before 4.6.5.1 allows reflected XSS because the filenames of uploaded files become predictable through a brute-force attack against the PHP mt_rand function.

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CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.008 (53.8th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 54th percentile — 53.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2021-39249: held from 0.008 to 0.008.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.008 · newest: 0.008 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-39249?
CVE-2021-39249 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Invisioncommunity Invision Power Board, classified under Use of Insufficiently Random Values. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2021-08-17.
How severe is CVE-2021-39249?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.