CVE-2008-7082 (GCVE-0-2008-7082)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-08-25 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 11:56
VLAI
Summary
MyBB (aka MyBulletinBoard) 1.4.3 includes the sensitive my_post_key parameter in URLs to moderation.php with the (1) mergeposts, (2) split, and (3) deleteposts actions, which allows remote attackers to steal the token and bypass the cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection mechanism to hijack the authentication of moderators by reading the token from the HTTP Referer header.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498630/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32467 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/32880 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://osvdb.org/50275 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
Date Public
2008-11-25 00:00
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