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CVE-2013-7235

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-04-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Simple Machines Forum (SMF) before 1.1.19 and 2.x before 2.0.6 allows remote attackers to impersonate arbitrary users via multiple space characters characters.

Affected products

• SimpleMachines Simple Machines Forum: through 1.1.9; 1.0, 1.0-beta4, 1.0-beta4.1, 1.0-beta5, 1.0-beta6, 1.0-rc1 (+64)

References

• http://download.simplemachines.org/index.php?thanks%3Bfilename=smf_2-0-6_changelog.txt
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Dec/83
• http://www.jakoblell.com/blog/2013/12/13/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-smf-forum-software/
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/30/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/30/3
• http://download.simplemachines.org/index.php?thanks%3Bfilename=smf_2-0-6_changelog.txt
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Dec/83
• http://www.jakoblell.com/blog/2013/12/13/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-smf-forum-software/
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/30/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/30/3

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