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MyBB Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Vulnerability (CVE-2016-9421)

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Users module in the Admin control panel in MyBB (aka MyBulletinBoard) before 1.8.8 and MyBB Merge System before 1.8.8 might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Remediation

References

CVE-2016-9421

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Severity

Medium

Classification

CVE-2016-9421 CWE-707 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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