CVE-2019-12831

HIGH

MyBB < 1.8.21 - Remote Code Execution via Theme Import Stylesheet Name Truncation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In MyBB before 1.8.21, an attacker can abuse a default behavior of MySQL on many systems (that leads to truncation of strings that are too long for a database column) to create a PHP shell in the cache directory of a targeted forum via a crafted XML import, as demonstrated by truncation of aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.php.css to aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.php with a 30-character limit, aka theme import stylesheet name RCE.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Exploit, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://blog.ripstech.com/2019/mybb-stored-xss-to-rce/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.2
EPSS 0.0149
EPSS Percentile 71.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (1)
mybb/mybb < 1.8.21
Published Jun 15, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026