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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Pligg Pligg CMS 9.5 (Content Management System). Affected is an unknown code block of the file login.php of the component Login. The manipulation of the argument confirmationcode with an unknown input leads to a credentials management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-255. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

login.php in Pligg CMS 9.5 uses a guessable confirmation code when resetting a forgotten password, which allows remote attackers with knowledge of a username to reset that user s password by calculating the confirmationcode parameter.

The weakness was released 05/25/2007 (Website). The advisory is available at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2007-5579 since 10/18/2007. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1552 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

It is declared as highly functional. By approaching the search of inurl:login.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (34512).

Productinfo

Type

• Content Management System

Vendor

• Pligg

Name

• Pligg CMS

Version

• 9.5

License

• open-source

CPE 2.3info

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CPE 2.2info

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CVSSv4info

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.1

VulDB Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Temp Score: 7.1
VulDB Vector: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

CVSSv2info

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Credentials management
CWE: CWE-255
ATT&CK: T1552

Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔍
Status: Highly functional
Google Hack: 🔍

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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
Status: 🔍

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Timelineinfo

05/25/2007 🔍
05/25/2007 +0 days 🔍
10/18/2007 +146 days 🔍
10/18/2007 +0 days 🔍
11/01/2007 +14 days 🔍
03/16/2015 +2691 days 🔍
10/29/2017 +958 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: archives.neohapsis.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2007-5579 (🔍)
X-Force: 34512 - Pligg CMS login.php security bypass
SecurityFocus: 24158 - Pligg Reset Forgotten Password Security Bypass Vulnerability
OSVDB: 42031 - Pligg CMS login.php Confirmation Code Prediction Weakness

Entryinfo

Created: 03/16/2015 12:18
Updated: 10/29/2017 11:55
Changes: 03/16/2015 12:18 (53), 10/29/2017 11:55 (6)
Complete: 🔍

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