CVE-2014-1840

medium

Published 2014-03-03 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.3

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Upload/search.php in MyBB 1.6.12 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the keywords parameter in a do_search action, which is not properly handled in a forced SQL error message.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
mybb	mybb	`{"endIncluding":"1.6.12"}`
mybb	mybb	`1.6.0`
mybb	mybb	`1.6.1`
mybb	mybb	`1.6.2`
mybb	mybb	`1.6.3`
mybb	mybb	`1.6.4`
mybb	mybb	`1.6.5`
mybb	mybb	`1.6.6`
mybb	mybb	`1.6.7`
mybb	mybb	`1.6.8`
mybb	mybb	`1.6.9`
mybb	mybb	`1.6.10`
mybb	mybb	`1.6.11`

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.