CVE-2008-7214
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in administrator/index2.php in MOStlyCE before 2.4, as used in Mambo 4.6.3 and earlier, allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that add new administrator accounts via the save task in a com_users action, as demonstrated using a separate XSS vulnerability in mambots/editors/mostlyce/jscripts/tiny_mce/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-352
- EPSS score
- 0.7% (55th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-7173)
- Published
- September 11, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-7173 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- brilaps / mostlyce
- mambo-foundation / mambo
- mambo-foundation / mambo
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-02/0444.html
- http://forum.mambo-foundation.org/showthread.php?t=10158
- http://osvdb.org/42531(Exploit)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28670(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.bugreport.ir/index_33.htm(Exploit)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487128/100/200/threaded
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0325(Vendor Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39985
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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