CVE-2015-4552 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the quick edit function in xmlhttp.php in MyBB (aka MyBulletinBoard) before 1.8.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the content of a post

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Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the quick edit function in xmlhttp.php in MyBB (aka MyBulletinBoard) before 1.8.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the content of a post

Published Sep 3, 2015

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.94%

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the quick edit function in xmlhttp.php in MyBB (aka MyBulletinBoard) before 1.8.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the content of a post.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.94% 0.01939

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01939

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.94% (0.01939)	79.38th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.94% (0.01939)	77.41th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.36% (0.00359)	55.93th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.22% (0.00223)	61.53th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 13, 2024	0.22% (0.00223)	60.77th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.22% (0.00223)	58.77th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.14% (0.01136)	59.45th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Oct 18, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	58.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	56.27th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	34.23th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (3)

http://adrianhayter.com/exploits.php
x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://blog.mybb.com/2015/05/27/mybb-1-8-5-1-6-17-merge-system-1-8-5-release/
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033471
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK

Link	Providers	Tags
http://adrianhayter.com/exploits.php		x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://blog.mybb.com/2015/05/27/mybb-1-8-5-1-6-17-merge-system-1-8-5-release/		x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033471		vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Sep 3, 2015

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Jun 14, 2015

Link CVE-2015-4552

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2015-4552

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2015-4552