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.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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.
    (CVE-2019-16993)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - 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.
    (CVE-2019-16993)

CVE-2019-16993

In phpBB, includes/acp/acp_bbcodes.php had improper verification of a CSRF token on the BBCode page in the Administration Control Panel. An actual CSRF attack was possible if an attacker also managed to retrieve the session id of a reauthenticated administrator prior to targeting them.

CVE-2019-13776

phpBB allowed the stealing of an Administration Control Panel session id by leveraging CSRF in the Remote Avatar feature. The CSRF Token Hijacking lead to stored XSS.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 3.0.12-5+deb8u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your phpbb3 packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
263034	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2019-16993	Nessus	Misc.	high
433123	SCA: security update for phpbb/phpbb (GHSA-vj3x-vfm4-hvxc)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
433123	SCA: security update for phpbb/phpbb (GHSA-vj3x-vfm4-hvxc)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high
129477	Debian DLA-1942-2 : phpbb3 regression update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2019-16993

high

Tenable Plugins

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