CVE-2010-5080

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 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: 2012-08-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-255

Description

The Security/changepassword URL action in SilverStripe 2.3.x before 2.3.10 and 2.4.x before 2.4.4 passes a token as a GET parameter while changing a password through email, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive data and hijack the session via the HTTP referer logs on a server, aka "HTTP referer leakage."

Affected products

Silverstripe: 2.3.0, 2.3.0-rc1, 2.3.0-rc2, 2.3.0-rc3, 2.3.1, 2.3.1-rc1 (+13)

References

http://doc.silverstripe.org/sapphire/en/trunk/changelogs//2.3.10
http://doc.silverstripe.org/sapphire/en/trunk/changelogs//2.4.4
http://open.silverstripe.org/changeset/114758
http://secunia.com/advisories/42346
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/03/12
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/30/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/30/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/01/3
http://www.osvdb.org/69887
http://doc.silverstripe.org/sapphire/en/trunk/changelogs//2.3.10
http://doc.silverstripe.org/sapphire/en/trunk/changelogs//2.4.4
http://open.silverstripe.org/changeset/114758

Get alerted when CVE-2010-5080 or the next vulnerability affects your stack