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CVE-2008-6498

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2009-03-20 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in security/xamppsecurity.php in XAMPP 1.6.8 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for requests that change a certain .htaccess password via the xampppasswd parameter.

Affected products

• XAMPP: 1.6.8

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/32134
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47201
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7384
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32134
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47201
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7384

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