CVE-2008-2066 (GCVE-0-2008-2066)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-05-02 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 08:49
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in bb_admin.php in miniBB 2.2a allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the whatus parameter in a searchusers2 action. NOTE: it was later reported that other versions before 3.0.1 are also vulnerable.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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|---|---|
| http://www.minibb.com/download.php?file=minibb_update | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61116 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://osvdb.org/95122 | vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/30004 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491375/100… | mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ |
| http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Jul/102 | mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC |
| https://www.mavitunasecurity.com/xss-and-sql-inje… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28957 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://www.minibb.com/forums/news-9/minibb-3.0.1-… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
| http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3846 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON |
Date Public
2008-04-28 00:00
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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