Auth bypass in Maianscriptworld Maian Greetings

CVE-2008-7086

Maian Greetings 2.1 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain administrative privileges by setting the mecard_admin_cookie cookie to admin.

Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication

Published 2009-08-26 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.066 (93.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 94th percentile — 93.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.066 · newest: 0.066 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Maianscriptworld Maian Greetings — versions 2.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-287 — Improper Authentication

References

www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6050 (exploit)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/30199 (Exploit, vdb-entry)
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43744 (vdb-entry)