CVE-2000-1228 Missing authorization in n/a

What is CVE-2000-1228?

CVE-2000-1228 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Phorum Phorum, published on 14 Jul 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Phorum 3.0.7 allows remote attackers to change the administrator password without authentication via an HTTP request for admin.php3 that sets step, option, confirm and newPssword variables.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2000-1228?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Phorum Phorum.

How do I fix CVE-2000-1228?

No fix has been published for CVE-2000-1228 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2000-1228 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2000-1228 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

Other vulnerabilities in Phorum Phorum

• CVE-2003-1487 Command injection in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2003-1466 Server-side request forgery in n/a High 7.5
• CVE-2007-2338 Cross-site request forgery in n/a High 7.5
• CVE-2007-2339 SQL injection in n/a High 7.5
• CVE-2006-6550 Code injection in n/a High 7.5

All Phorum Phorum vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-c5vm-cg9p-c7r9.