CVE-2008-0775

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-02-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in sboxDB.php in Simple Machines Forum (SMF) Shoutbox 1.14 through 1.16b allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via strings to the shoutbox form that start with "&#", contain the desired script, and end with ";".

Affected products

Simple Machines Smf Shoutbox: 1.14, 1.15, 1.16b

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/28900
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3651
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487912/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489964/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491357/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27727
http://secunia.com/advisories/28900
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3651
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487912/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489964/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491357/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27727

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