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CVE-2019-16993
- Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2019-09-30 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-352
Description
In phpBB before 3.1.7-PL1, includes/acp/acp_bbcodes.php has improper verification of a CSRF token on the BBCode page in the Administration Control Panel. An actual CSRF attack is possible if an attacker also manages to retrieve the session id of a reauthenticated administrator prior to targeting them.
Affected products
- Debian Linux: 8.0
- phpBB: through 3.1.7
References
- https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/commit/18abef716ecf42a35416444f3f84f5459d573789
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00036.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00006.html
- https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2352606
- https://www.phpbb.com/support/documents.php?mode=changelog&version=3#v317
- https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/commit/18abef716ecf42a35416444f3f84f5459d573789
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00036.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00006.html
- https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2352606
- https://www.phpbb.com/support/documents.php?mode=changelog&version=3#v317
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