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CVE-2008-1862

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.8 Published: 2008-04-17 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

ExBB Italia 0.22 and earlier only checks GET requests that use the QUERY_STRING for certain path manipulations, which allows remote attackers to bypass this check via (1) POST or (2) COOKIE variables, a different vector than CVE-2006-4488. NOTE: this can be leveraged to conduct PHP remote file inclusion attacks via a URL in the (a) new_exbb[home_path] or (b) exbb[home_path] parameter to modules/threadstop/threadstop.php.

Affected Platforms

Exbb Exbb Italia

Weakness Type

CWE-20, CWE-94

References