Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in security/xamppsecurity.php in XAMPP 1.6.8 allows remote attackers to hijack the authenti…

Published 17 y ago 2009-03-20 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-16 · JSON

CVSS

6.8

v2.0 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

1.0%

percentile 64%

Public exploits

Exploit-DB

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in security/xamppsecurity.php in XAMPP 1.6.8 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for requests that change a certain .htaccess password via the xampppasswd parameter.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.05% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 64% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

EDB-7384 XAMPP 1.6.8 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (Change Administrative Password) · remote · 2008-12-08
EDB-10391 XAMPP 1.7.2 - Change Administrative Password · webapps · 2009-12-11

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	2.0	6.8	`AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P`

Classification

Weakness

CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery

References

exploit-db.com /exploits/7384 · exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB, x_transferred
secunia.com /advisories/32134 · third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA, x_transferred
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com /vulnerabilities/47201 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2008-6498
NVD: CVE-2008-6498

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