PT-2019-9131 · Gnuboard · Gnuboard5

Published 2019-03-27 · Updated 2024-09-19 · CVE-2018-15585

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 newwinform.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 newwinform.php file or sanitizing the popup title parameter to prevent injection of malicious scripts.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-15585

Affected Products

Gnuboard5

References · 7

• https://github.com/gnuboard/gnuboard5/commit/b1fc952c7600b825c4b02e2789ddafdea18c8d13 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15585 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-15585 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/gnuboard/gnuboard5/blob/b1fc952c7600b825c4b02e2789ddafdea18c8d13/adm/newwinform.php · Note
• https://github.com/gnuboard/gnuboard5/blob/b1fc952c7600b825c4b02e2789ddafdea18c8d13/adm/newwinformupdate.php · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-15585 · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/95220 · Telegram Post