Description

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.

Remediation

References

CVE-2018-15596

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Severity

Medium

Classification

CVE-2018-15596 CWE-707 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Tags

Missing Update Known Vulnerabilities