01 Record
CVE-2021-28968
An issue was discovered in PunBB before 1.4.6. An XSS vulnerability in the [email] BBcode tag allows (with authentication) injecting arbitrary JavaScript into any forum message.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
An issue was discovered in PunBB before 1.4.6. An XSS vulnerability in the [email] BBcode tag allows (with authentication) injecting arbitrary JavaScript into any forum message.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.53% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 45.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.4 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2021-03-22 15:10Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-03 21:55Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-03-22
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 5b9249bdff619da6ba6b2f2e69650bca6c9b852d51c0fa0f45b2e003ddb50c31
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- punbb.informer.comhttps://punbb.informer.com/