CVE-2008-7082 (GCVE-0-2008-7082)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2009-08-25 10:00
Modified
2024-08-07 11:56
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
MyBB (aka MyBulletinBoard) 1.4.3 includes the sensitive my_post_key parameter in URLs to moderation.php with the (1) mergeposts, (2) split, and (3) deleteposts actions, which allows remote attackers to steal the token and bypass the cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection mechanism to hijack the authentication of moderators by reading the token from the HTTP Referer header.
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