CVE-2016-7980

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-01-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in ecrire/exec/valider_xml.php in SPIP 3.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that execute the XML validator on a local file via a crafted valider_xml request. NOTE: this issue can be combined with CVE-2016-7998 to execute arbitrary PHP code.

Affected products

SPIP: through 3.1.2

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/05/17
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/06/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/12/6
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93451
https://core.spip.net/projects/spip/repository/revisions/23201
https://core.spip.net/projects/spip/repository/revisions/23202
https://core.spip.net/projects/spip/repository/revisions/23203
https://sysdream.com/news/lab/2016-10-19-spip-3-1-2-exec-code-cross-site-request-forgery-cve-2016-7980/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/05/17
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/06/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/12/6
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93451

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