CVE-2008-0775: Simple Machines Smf Shoutbox

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in sboxDB.php in Simple Machines Forum (SMF) Shoutbox 1.14 through 1.16b allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via strings to the shoutbox form that start with "&#", contain the desired script, and end with ";".

Affected products

• Simple Machines Smf Shoutbox: version 1.14 only; version 1.15 only; version 1.16b only

Published 2008-02-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.