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CVE-2009-1576

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2009-05-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Drupal 5.x before 5.17 and 6.x before 6.11, as used in vbDrupal before 5.17.0, allows user-assisted remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by tricking victims into visiting the front page of the site with a crafted URL and causing form data to be sent to an attacker-controlled site, possibly related to multiple / (slash) characters that are not properly handled by includes/bootstrap.inc, as demonstrated using the search box. NOTE: this vulnerability can be leveraged to conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks.

Affected products

• Drupal: 5.0-beta1, 5.0-beta2, 5.0-rc1, 5.0-rc2, 5.1, 5.1_rev1.1 (+25)

References

• http://drupal.org/files/sa-core-2009-005/SA-CORE-2009-005-5.16.patch
• http://drupal.org/node/449078
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34948
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34950
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34980
• http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1792
• http://www.osvdb.org/54153
• http://www.vbdrupal.org/forum/showthread.php?p=9953#post9953
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1216
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg00108.html
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg00133.html
• http://drupal.org/files/sa-core-2009-005/SA-CORE-2009-005-5.16.patch

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