CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-16993
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-09-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-352
Description
In phpBB before 3.1.7-PL1, includes/acp/acp_bbcodes.php has improper verification of a CSRF token on the BBCode page in the Administration Control Panel. An actual CSRF attack is possible if an attacker also manages to retrieve the session id of a reauthenticated administrator prior to targeting them.
Affected configurations
• phpbb phpbb (<= 3.1.7)
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery weakness
References
- https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/commit/18abef716ecf42a35416444f3f84f5459d573789 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00036.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00006.html Third Party Advisory
- https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2352606 Vendor Advisory
- https://www.phpbb.com/support/documents.php?mode=changelog&version=3#v317 Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/commit/18abef716ecf42a35416444f3f84f5459d573789 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00036.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00006.html Third Party Advisory
- https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2352606 Vendor Advisory
- https://www.phpbb.com/support/documents.php?mode=changelog&version=3#v317 Vendor Advisory