Detections
Analytics
CVE-2019-16993
high
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.
References
https://www.phpbb.com/support/documents.php?mode=changelog&version=3#v317
https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2352606
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00006.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00036.html
https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/commit/18abef716ecf42a35416444f3f84f5459d573789