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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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2019-06-15T17:05:08

Updated: 2019-06-15T17:05:08

Reserved: 2019-06-15T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2019-12831

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2019-06-15T18:29:00.283

Modified: 2019-06-17T19:01:45.343


Link: CVE-2019-12831

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