CVE-2011-5131

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-08-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in global.php in MyBB before 1.6.5 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of a user for requests that change the user's language via the language parameter.

Affected products

mybb: through 1.6.4; 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.1.5 (+43)

References

http://blog.mybb.com/2011/11/25/mybb-1-6-5-released-feature-update-security-maintenance-release/
http://dev.mybb.com/issues/1729
http://secunia.com/advisories/46951
http://www.osvdb.org/77327
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50816
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71462
http://blog.mybb.com/2011/11/25/mybb-1-6-5-released-feature-update-security-maintenance-release/
http://dev.mybb.com/issues/1729
http://secunia.com/advisories/46951
http://www.osvdb.org/77327
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50816
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71462

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