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CVE-2016-20051: Snews CMS 1.7 Cross-Site Request Forgery via changeup

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2026-04-04 · updated 2026-07-21
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Snews CMS 1.7 contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability that allows attackers to change administrator credentials without authentication by crafting malicious HTML forms. Attackers can trick authenticated administrators into visiting a page containing a hidden form that submits POST requests to the changeup action, modifying the admin username and password parameters to gain unauthorized access.

Affected products

• sNews: through 1.7

References

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40705
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/snews-cms-cross-site-request-forgery-via-changeup

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