CVE-2008-6957
member.php in Crossday Discuz! Board allows remote attackers to reset passwords of arbitrary users via crafted (1) lostpasswd and (2)…
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- mitre
Description
member.php in Crossday Discuz! Board allows remote attackers to reset passwords of arbitrary users via crafted (1) lostpasswd and (2) getpasswd actions, possibly involving predictable generation of the id parameter.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Discuz! - Remote Reset User Password (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 7185webapps, phppublished 22 Nov 2008Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 7185 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 15 years later
· 15 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 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.8% · top 13% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (6)
- 7185 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 32731 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- discuz-member-security-bypass(46785) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.discuz.net/archiver/?tid-1112426.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.80vul.com/dzvul/sodb/14/dz-exp-sodb-2008-14_php.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 32424 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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-2008-6916 (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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