CVE-2008-0471 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in privmsg.php in phpBB 2.0.22 allows remote attackers to delete private messages (PM) as arbitrary users via a deleteall action.

Published: 2008-01-29

Score: 4.3 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:phpbb:phpbb:2.0.22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DSA	DSA-1488-1	New phpbb2 packages fix several vulnerabilities
EUVD	EUVD-2008-0481	Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in privmsg.php in phpBB 2.0.22 allows remote attackers to delete private messages (PM) as arbitrary users via a deleteall action.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00259.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=463589
http://secunia.com/advisories/28630
http://secunia.com/advisories/28871
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3585
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1488
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487004/100/0/threaded

History

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Subscriptions

Phpbb Phpbb

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2008-01-29T19:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T07:46:55.052Z

Reserved: 2008-01-29T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-0471

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-01-29T20:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-0471

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-352

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