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CVE-2008-6431 (GCVE-0-2008-6431)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-03-06 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 11:27
VLAI
Summary
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in BMForum 5.6 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) outpused parameter to index.php, the (2) footer_copyright and (3) verandproname parameters to newtem/footer/bsd01footer.php, and the (4) topads and (5) myplugin parameters to newtem/header/bsd01header.php.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://osvdb.org/45614 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://osvdb.org/45613 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://secunia.com/advisories/30369 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29339 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://osvdb.org/45612 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492449/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Date Public
2008-05-22 00:00
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