With the release of MyBB 1.8.22, over one hundred vulnerabilities have been addressed in the 1.8 branch. In this post we look into what the numbers can tell us so far, and how the trends are expected to change in the future.
Since the announcement of the first stable package in 2005, over 270 security flaws were fixed in the 87 versions starting with MyBB 1.0 (some of which overlapped when two supported branches received security updates simultaneously), making 88% of all releases related to security fixes. Additional information tracked within the 1.8.x branch surfaces the most common means of reporting, types, and practical impact of 103 vulnerabilities that have been addressed five years in.