CVE-2025-67163

State: Published
Severity: 6.1 Medium
Published: Dec 18, 2025
Updated: Dec 18, 2025
Reserved: Dec 8, 2025

Description

A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Simple Machines Forum v2.1.6 allows attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts or HTML via injecting a crafted payload into the Forum Name parameter.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.1 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CWE-83 Improper Neutralization of Script in Attributes in a Web Page

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://github.com/SimpleMachines/SMF/security/advisories/GHSA-p2xm-x9fp-5r7x
https://github.com/SimpleMachines/SMF/blob/release-3.0/Themes/default/Stats.template.php#L26
https://github.com/SimpleMachines/SMF
https://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Installing
https://github.com/mbiesiad/vulnerability-research/tree/main/CVE-2025-67163

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