CVE-2019-12831

Published Jun 15, 2019 CVSS 3.0 · 7.2 High EPSS 1.5% KEV · Not listed
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.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-4411 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.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 11:32 PM
Reserved
Jun 15, 2019, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jun 15, 2019, 6:29 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 2:15 AM