CVE-2016-20051

CVE-2016-20051CVE-2016-20051

snewscms / snews

Description

Snews CMS 1.7 contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability that allows attackers to change administrator credentials without authentication by crafting malicious HTML forms. Attackers can trick authenticated administrators into visiting a page containing a hidden form that submits POST requests to the changeup action, modifying the admin username and password parameters to gain unauthorized access.

Scoring

CVSS 5.3 ()
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Last modified2026-07-21
Sourced from NVD. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.