CVE-2011-4173

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: none known
Published: 2011-10-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Simple Machines Forum (SMF) 2.x before 2.0.1 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators or moderators via vectors involving image files, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-3615. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

SimpleMachines SMF: 2.0, 2.0-beta1, 2.0-beta2, 2.0-beta2.1, 2.0-beta3, 2.0-beta3.1 (+7)

References

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/09/3
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/10/6
http://secunia.com/advisories/46386
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=452888.0
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/09/3
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/10/6
http://secunia.com/advisories/46386
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=452888.0

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