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.
History

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0000

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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.
Title Snews CMS 1.7 Cross-Site Request Forgery via changeup
First Time appeared Snewscms
Snewscms snews
Weaknesses CWE-352
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:snewscms:snews:1.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Snewscms
Snewscms snews
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 6.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-04T19:59:42.176Z

Reserved: 2026-04-04T13:32:48.661Z

Link: CVE-2016-20051

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-04-04T14:16:17.370

Modified: 2026-04-04T14:16:17.370

Link: CVE-2016-20051

cve-icon Redhat

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