CVE-2018-18668

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-08-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

GNUBOARD5 before 5.3.2.0 has XSS that allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the "homepage title" parameter, aka the adm/config_form_update.php cf_title parameter.

Affected products

gnuboard5: before 5.3.2.0 — fixed in 5.3.2.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: gnuboard5 5.3.2.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/gnuboard/gnuboard5/commit/a45241f4bc46aee1ab2cc0749f6444b043681edf#diff-53f7f220c2d2861a98444adf09471496
https://github.com/gnuboard/gnuboard5/compare/15b2e73...2549172
https://github.com/gnuboard/gnuboard5/releases/tag/5.3.2.0
https://github.com/gnuboard/gnuboard5/commit/a45241f4bc46aee1ab2cc0749f6444b043681edf#diff-53f7f220c2d2861a98444adf09471496
https://github.com/gnuboard/gnuboard5/compare/15b2e73...2549172
https://github.com/gnuboard/gnuboard5/releases/tag/5.3.2.0

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