CVE-2007-4453

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-08-21 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in vBulletin 3.6.8 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web code or HTML via the (1) s parameter to index.php, and the (2) q parameter to (a) faq.php, (b) member.php, (c) memberlist.php, (d) calendar.php, (e) search.php, (f) forumdisplay.php, (g) showgroups.php, (h) online.php, and (i) sendmessage.php. NOTE: these issues have been disputed by the vendor, stating "I can't reproduce a single one of these". The researcher is known to be unreliable

Affected products

Jelsoft Vbulletin: 3.6.8

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/476924/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/476940/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36084
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/476924/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/476940/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36084

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