CVE-2008-6657

high

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in index.php in Simple Machines Forum (SMF) 1.0 before 1.0.15 and 1.1 before 1.1.7 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of admins for requests that install packages via the package parameter in an install2 action.

References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6993

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46343

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=272861.0

http://secunia.com/advisories/32516

http://osvdb.org/50071

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-04-07

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01476