CVE-2008-6431

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-03-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in BMForum 5.6 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) outpused parameter to index.php, the (2) footer_copyright and (3) verandproname parameters to newtem/footer/bsd01footer.php, and the (4) topads and (5) myplugin parameters to newtem/header/bsd01header.php.

Affected products

Bmforum: 5.6

References

http://osvdb.org/45612
http://osvdb.org/45613
http://osvdb.org/45614
http://secunia.com/advisories/30369
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492449/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29339
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42590
http://osvdb.org/45612
http://osvdb.org/45613
http://osvdb.org/45614
http://secunia.com/advisories/30369
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492449/100/0/threaded

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