CVE-2008-5964

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-01-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

Session fixation vulnerability in Social ImpressCMS before 1.1.1 RC1 allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions by setting the PHPSESSID parameter.

Affected products

ImpressCMS: through 1.0.3; 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1

References

http://osvdb.org/50413
http://secunia.com/advisories/32985
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=893767
http://wiki.impresscms.org/index.php?title=Change_Log#2008-12-2_:_1.1.1_RC
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498734/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498885/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32495
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46989
http://osvdb.org/50413
http://secunia.com/advisories/32985
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=893767
http://wiki.impresscms.org/index.php?title=Change_Log#2008-12-2_:_1.1.1_RC

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