CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-1862

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2008-04-17 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-04-17
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20, CWE-94

Description

ExBB Italia 0.22 and earlier only checks GET requests that use the QUERY_STRING for certain path manipulations, which allows remote attackers to bypass this check via (1) POST or (2) COOKIE variables, a different vector than CVE-2006-4488. NOTE: this can be leveraged to conduct PHP remote file inclusion attacks via a URL in the (a) new_exbb[home_path] or (b) exbb[home_path] parameter to modules/threadstop/threadstop.php.

Affected configurations

• exbb exbb italia (<= 0.2.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness

References