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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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2019-06-15T17:05:08
Updated: 2024-08-04T23:32:55.221Z
Reserved: 2019-06-15T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2019-12831
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2019-06-15T18:29:00.283
Modified: 2024-11-21T04:23:40.667
Link: CVE-2019-12831
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