cve-2018-15596
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-08-28 19:00
Modified
2024-08-05 10:01
Severity ?
Summary
An issue was discovered in inc/class_feedgeneration.php in MyBB 1.8.17. On the forum RSS Syndication page, one can generate a URL such as http://localhost/syndication.php?fid=&type=atom1.0&limit=15. The thread titles (within title elements of the generated XML documents) aren't sanitized, leading to XSS.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://blog.mybb.com/2018/08/22/mybb-1-8-18-released-security-maintenance-release/Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45393/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://blog.mybb.com/2018/08/22/mybb-1-8-18-released-security-maintenance-release/Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45393/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
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