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High severity7.2NVD Advisory· Published Jun 15, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2019-12831

CVE-2019-12831

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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Affected products

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  • MyBB/Mybb2 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:mybb:mybb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:mybb:mybb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <1.8.21
    • (no CPE)range: <1.8.21
  • MyBB/MyBBdescription

Patches

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