CVE-2008-1862

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-04-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

ExBB Italia 0.22 and earlier only checks GET requests that use the QUERY_STRING for certain path manipulations, which allows remote attackers to bypass this check via (1) POST or (2) COOKIE variables, a different vector than CVE-2006-4488. NOTE: this can be leveraged to conduct PHP remote file inclusion attacks via a URL in the (a) new_exbb[home_path] or (b) exbb[home_path] parameter to modules/threadstop/threadstop.php.

Affected products

Exbb Italia: through 0.2.2

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/29739
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41708
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5405
http://secunia.com/advisories/29739
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41708
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5405

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