vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2019-16993: phpbb3 -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Sep 30, 2019
Added
Oct 2, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-phpbb3
Title
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