CVE-2025-67163
BaseFortify
Publication date: 2025-12-18
Last updated on: 2025-12-19
Assigner: MITRE
Description
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| simple_machines | forum | 2.1.6 |
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Exploitability
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-79 | The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. |
| CWE-20 | The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. |
| CWE-83 | The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes "javascript:" or other URIs from dangerous attributes within tags, such as onmouseover, onload, onerror, or style. |
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AI Powered Q&A
Can you explain this vulnerability to me?
This vulnerability is a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) issue in Simple Machines Forum version 2.1.6. It allows attackers to inject malicious web scripts or HTML by inserting a crafted payload into the Forum Name parameter. When other users view the affected forum, the malicious script executes in their browsers.
How can this vulnerability impact me? :
The vulnerability can allow attackers to execute arbitrary scripts in the context of the forum website, potentially leading to session hijacking, defacement, theft of user credentials, or other malicious actions affecting users of the forum.