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CVE-2008-5400
Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in mvnForum before 1.2.1 GA allow remote attackers to (1) create forums, (2)…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 0.70%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 46% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in mvnForum before 1.2.1 GA allow remote attackers to (1) create forums, (2) change account privileges, (3) enable accounts, or (4) disable accounts as a product administrator via unspecified vectors, possibly related to HTTP Referer headers.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.70% · top 46% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- http://www.mvnforum.com/mvnforum/viewthread_thread%2C4361 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 4699 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 32931 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- mvnforum-unspecified-csrf(47027) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://security.bkis.vn/?p=286 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 50404 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 20081203 [SVRT-06-08] MULTI SECURITY VULNERABILITIES IN MVNFORUM (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20081203 [SVRT-06-08] MULTI SECURITY VULNERABILITIES IN MVNFORUM (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-5377 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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