CVE-2008-1971

2008-04-2718:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

AI Score

6.9

Confidence

Low

EPSS

0.023

Percentile

89.7%

JSON

phShoutBox Final 1.5 and earlier only checks passwords when specified in $_POST, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges by setting the (1) phadmin cookie to admin.php, or (2) in 1.4 and earlier, the ssbadmin cookie to shoutadmin.php.

References

secunia.com/advisories/29892

www.securityfocus.com/bid/28856

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41901

www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5467