CVE-2016-7980

8.8 highEPSS 4.1%

High (8.8) in spip spip. EPSS 4.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in ecrire/exec/valider_xml.php in SPIP 3.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that execute the XML validator on a local file via a crafted valider_xml request. NOTE: this issue can be combined with CVE-2016-7998 to execute arbitrary PHP code.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

8.8 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 4.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 90% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-352
Published: 2017-01-18
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

spip:spip

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/05/17
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/06/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/12/6
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93451
https://core.spip.net/projects/spip/repository/revisions/23201

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