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CVE-2016-20051

6.9 mediumEPSS 0.2%

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.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

6.9 medium
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L

CVSS 3.1

4.3 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS
0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 5% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-352
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

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