MyBB up to 1.8.0 report.php File cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in MyBB up to 1.8.0. It has been classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file report.php. The manipulation of the argument File leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2014-9241. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. Furthermore, an exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in MyBB up to 1.8.0 (Content Management System) and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code block of the file report.php. The manipulation of the argument file with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in MyBB (aka MyBulletinBoard) 1.8.x before 1.8.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) type parameter to report.php, (2) signature parameter in a do_editsig action to usercp.php, or (3) title parameter in the style-templates module in an edit_template action or (4) file parameter in the config-languages module in an edit action to admin/index.php.

The weakness was published 12/03/2014 (Website). The advisory is shared at blog.mybb.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2014-9241 since 12/03/2014. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:report.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

Upgrading to version 1.8.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (35224). Similar entry is available at VDB-73084. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Content Management System

Name

• MyBB

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8.0

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• open-source

Website

• Product: https://mybb.com/

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