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CVE-2011-4173

Status: ModifiedMedium (6.8)—

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Simple Machines Forum (SMF) 2.x before 2.0.1 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators or moderators via vectors involving image files, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-3615. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Simplemachines — SMF

CWEs

References

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