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CVE-2009-4851

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-05-07 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The activation resend function in the Profiles module in XOOPS before 2.4.1 sends activation codes in response to arbitrary activation requests, which allows remote attackers to bypass administrative approval via a request involving activate.php.

Affected products

• Xoops: through 2.4.0; 1.0, 1.0_rc1, 1.0_rc3, 1.0_rc3.0.5, 1.3.5, 1.3.6 (+55)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/37274
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3256
• http://www.xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=319132
• http://www.xoops.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=5096
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37274
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3256
• http://www.xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=319132
• http://www.xoops.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=5096

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