CVE-2016-20051
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.
- Score
- CVSS 4.0 6.9 Medium
- Status
- Analyzed - disclosure@vulncheck.com
- Published
- 2026-04-04
- Last modified
- 2026-04-06
- Weaknesses
- CWE-352
Affected products
References
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40705
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/snews-cms-cross-site-request-forgery-via-changeup
