Auth bypass in Phphq Phshoutbox Final

CVE-2008-1971

phShoutBox Final 1.5 and earlier only checks passwords when specified in $_POST, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges by setting the (1) phadmin cookie to admin.php, or (2) in 1.4 and earlier, the ssbadmin cookie to shoutadmin.php.

Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication

EPSS: 0.022 (80.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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