CVE-2020-8510

9.8 criticalEPSS 1.2%

Critical (9.8) in phpabook project phpabook. EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in phpABook 0.9 Intermediate. On the login page, if one sets a userInfo cookie with the value of admin+1+en (user+perms+lang), one can login as any user without a password.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 69% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-287
Published: 2020-02-03
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

phpabook_project:phpabook

References

https://0xem.ma/cve/2020/01/31/CVE-2020-8510.html
https://sourceforge.net/p/phpabook/news/
https://0xem.ma/cve/2020/01/31/CVE-2020-8510.html
https://sourceforge.net/p/phpabook/news/

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