CVE-2006-1912

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-04-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

MyBB (MyBulletinBoard) 1.1.0 does not set the constant KILL_GLOBAL variable in (1) global.php and (2) inc/init.php, which allows remote attackers to initialize arbitrary variables that are processed by an @extract command, which could then be leveraged to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) or SQL injection attacks.

Affected products

Mybulletinboard: 1.10

References

http://community.mybboard.net/showthread.php?tid=8232
http://myimei.com/security/2006-04-14/mybb110globalphpparameterextracting.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/19668
http://www.osvdb.org/24710
http://www.osvdb.org/24711
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431061/30/5580/threaded
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1381
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25865
http://community.mybboard.net/showthread.php?tid=8232
http://myimei.com/security/2006-04-14/mybb110globalphpparameterextracting.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/19668
http://www.osvdb.org/24710

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