CVE-2007-5579

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

login.php in Pligg CMS 9.5 uses a guessable confirmation code when resetting a forgotten password, which allows remote attackers with knowledge of a username to reset that user's password by calculating the confirmationcode parameter.

login.php in Pligg CMS 9.5 uses a guessable confirmation code when resetting a forgotten password, which allows remote attackers with knowledge of a username to reset that user's password by calculating the confirmationcode parameter.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 17 years ago

2007-10-18 22:17:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-29 01:33:00

Affected Software

Pligg CMS 9.5

9.5

References

20070525 Pligg critical vulnerability

42031

24158

Exploit

pliggcms-login-security-bypass(34512)

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