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CVE-2020-8510

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-02-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-287

Description

An issue was discovered in phpABook 0.9 Intermediate. On the login page, if one sets a userInfo cookie with the value of admin+1+en (user+perms+lang), one can login as any user without a password.

Affected products

• Phpabook Project Phpabook: 0.9

References

• https://0xem.ma/cve/2020/01/31/CVE-2020-8510.html
• https://sourceforge.net/p/phpabook/news/
• https://0xem.ma/cve/2020/01/31/CVE-2020-8510.html
• https://sourceforge.net/p/phpabook/news/

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