CVE-2019-8279

MEDIUM 5.4CVE-2019-8279 · Published 02/03/2019 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2019-8279 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.4) vulnerability affecting vanilla forums (vanillaforums).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.81%, higher than 56.8% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 2.5.0 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
vanilla forums vanillaforums	`< 2.5.0`	`2.5.0`

Multiple stored XSS in Vanilla Forums before 2.5 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary JavaScript code into any message on forum.

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

< 2.5.0

2.5.0

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