CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-1971
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-04-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-287
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• phphq phshoutbox final (<= 1.5)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29892 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28856 Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41901 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5467 www.exploit-db.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29892 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28856 Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41901 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5467 www.exploit-db.com