CVE-2009-1512

X Forum vulnerability

CVSS

6.5

EPSS

4.0%

EPSS pct

89th

Exploited

No known

Static code injection vulnerability in X-Forum 0.6.2 allows remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary PHP code into Config.php via the adminEMail parameter to SaveConfig.php.

Affected vendor

Keir Davis

Affected product

X Forum

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-94 — Code Injection

Published

2009-05-01

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

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