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Debian: CVE-2016-7980: spip -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2016-7980: spip -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/02/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/31/2017
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in ecrire/exec/valider_xml.php in SPIP 3.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that execute the XML validator on a local file via a crafted valider_xml request. NOTE: this issue can be combined with CVE-2016-7998 to execute arbitrary PHP code.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-spip

References

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