PT-2019-9129 · Gnuboard · Gnuboard5

Adm1Nkyj · Published 2019-03-25 · Updated 2024-09-19 · CVE-2018-15583

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNUBOARD5 versions prior to 5.3.1.6

Description The issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the popup title parameter in the point list.php file. This enables attackers to perform Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks.

Recommendations For versions prior to 5.3.1.6, update to version 5.3.1.6 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the point list.php file or disabling the use of the popup title parameter until a patch is available.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-15583

Affected Products

Gnuboard5

References · 6

• https://github.com/gnuboard/gnuboard5/commit/b1fc952c7600b825c4b02e2789ddafdea18c8d13#diff-6e31fc60ba119c0f830f8a22fe1925dc · Patch
• https://github.com/gnuboard/gnuboard5/commits/master?after=831219e2c233b2d721a049b7aeb054936d000dc2+69 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-15583 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15583 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/95219 · Telegram Post
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-15583 · Note