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MyBB Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Vulnerability (CVE-2015-8976)

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MyBB (aka MyBulletinBoard) before 1.6.18 and 1.8.x before 1.8.6 and MyBB Merge System before 1.8.6 might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to "old upgrade files."

Remediation

References

CVE-2015-8976

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Severity

Medium

Classification

CVE-2015-8976 CWE-707 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Tags

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