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CVE-2016-20051

Published: Apr 4, 2026

Modified: Apr 6, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

5.3

MEDIUM

Description

Snews CMS 1.7 contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability that allows attackers to change administrator credentials without authentication by crafting malicious HTML forms. Attackers can trick authenticated administrators into visiting a page containing a hidden form that submits POST requests to the changeup action, modifying the admin username and password parameters to gain unauthorized access.

VendorProductVersions

Snewscms

Snews CMS Cross Site Request Forgery

affected
1.7

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-352

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

References

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