CVE-2007-1520

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-03-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection in PHP-Nuke 8.0 and earlier does not ensure the SERVER superglobal is an array before validating the HTTP_REFERER, which allows remote attackers to conduct CSRF attacks.

Affected products

Phpnuke Php-Nuke: through 8.0; 5.6, 6.5, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 (+6)

References

http://osvdb.org/34501
http://phpfi.com/214668
http://secunia.com/advisories/24629
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/462308/100/100/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/462575/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/462727/100/0/threaded
http://www.ush.it/2007/03/09/php-nuke-wild-post-xss/
http://www.wisec.it/ush/phpnukexss.html
http://osvdb.org/34501
http://phpfi.com/214668
http://secunia.com/advisories/24629
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/462308/100/100/threaded

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