phpbb/phpbb-app · Security
phpBB Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-vj3x-vfm4-hvxc
- CVE ID
- CVE-2019-16993
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 8.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 8.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
CWEs
- CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-16993 ↗
- https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/commit/18abef716ecf42a35416444f3f84f5459d573789 ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00036.html ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00006.html ↗
- https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2352606 ↗
- https://www.phpbb.com/support/documents.php?mode=changelog&version=3#v317 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vj3x-vfm4-hvxc ↗