CVE-2011-1482

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-06-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in mainfile.php in Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 8.0 and earlier allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) add user accounts or (2) grant the administrative privilege to a user account, related to a Referer check that uses a substring comparison.

Affected products

Phpnuke Php-Nuke: through 8.0; 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.3.1 (+19)

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/23/9
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/30/8
http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/%5Bphpnuke-8.x%5D_cross_site_request_forgery
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/23/9
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/30/8
http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/%5Bphpnuke-8.x%5D_cross_site_request_forgery

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