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CVE-2019-16391

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-09-17 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

SPIP before 3.1.11 and 3.2 before 3.2.5 allows authenticated visitors to modify any published content and execute other modifications in the database. This is related to ecrire/inc/meta.php and ecrire/inc/securiser_action.php.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 18.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
• SPIP: before 3.1.11; from 3.2.0 before 3.2.5 — fixed in 3.1.11, 3.2.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: SPIP 3.1.11, 3.2.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://blog.spip.net/Mise-a-jour-CRITIQUE-de-securite-Sortie-de-SPIP-3-2-5-et-SPIP-3-1-11.html
• https://blog.spip.net/Mise-a-jour-CRITIQUE-de-securite-Sortie-de-SPIP-3-2-5-et-SPIP-3-1-11.html?lang=fr
• https://git.spip.net/SPIP/spip/commit/187952ce85e73b52c2753f2d54fc2c44807b8f79
• https://git.spip.net/SPIP/spip/commit/3cbc758400323ab006c00ea78eacdb8f76aa5f66
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00038.html
• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/40
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4536-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4532
• https://blog.spip.net/Mise-a-jour-CRITIQUE-de-securite-Sortie-de-SPIP-3-2-5-et-SPIP-3-1-11.html
• https://blog.spip.net/Mise-a-jour-CRITIQUE-de-securite-Sortie-de-SPIP-3-2-5-et-SPIP-3-1-11.html?lang=fr
• https://git.spip.net/SPIP/spip/commit/187952ce85e73b52c2753f2d54fc2c44807b8f79
• https://git.spip.net/SPIP/spip/commit/3cbc758400323ab006c00ea78eacdb8f76aa5f66

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