CVE-2018-15584 — Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in adm/boardgroup_form_update

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in adm/boardgroup_form_update.php and adm/boardgroup_list_update.php in gnuboard5 before 5.3.1.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML.

01What is this vulnerability?

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in adm/boardgroup_form_update.php and adm/boardgroup_list_update.php in gnuboard5 before 5.3.1.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-04-26T19:06:56.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T10:01:54.599Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/gnuboard/gnuboard5/commit/b1fc952c7600b825c4b02e2789ddafdea18…
• github.com — https://github.com/gnuboard/gnuboard5/commit/b1fc952c7600b825c4b02e2789ddafdea18…