National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-3966
Original release date:09/11/2008
Last revised:11/15/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in MyBB (aka MyBulletinBoard) before 1.4.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) a certain referrer field in usercp2.php, (2) a certain location field in inc/functions_online.php, and certain (3) tsubject and (4) psubject fields in moderation.php.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
Solution
Patch information - http://community.mybboard.net/showthread.php?tid=36022
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External Source: BID
Name: 31104
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20080909 Re: CVE request: mybb < 1.4.1
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20080909 CVE request: mybb < 1.4.1
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31760
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://community.mybboard.net/showthread.php?tid=36022
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://community.mybboard.net/attachment.php?aid=10579