CVE-2008-6790 (GCVE-0-2008-6790)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-05-04 18:22 – Updated: 2024-08-07 11:41
VLAI
Summary
The admin module in MindDezign Photo Gallery 2.2 allows remote attackers to add administrative users and gain privileges via a modified username parameter in an edit account action to index.php.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6820 exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31897 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2008-10-23 00:00
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