CVE detail

CVE-2008-1971 — CVE-2008-1971

Published 2008-04-27 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor phphq · Product phshoutbox_final · Source nvd

UNKNOWN

severity

CVSS-derived band

n/a

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0221

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

81.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

phShoutBox Final 1.5 and earlier only checks passwords when specified in $_POST, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges by setting the (1) phadmin cookie to admin.php, or (2) in 1.4 and earlier, the ssbadmin cookie to shoutadmin.php.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

cvedb.io · NVD · CISA KEV · FIRST EPSS · vendor advisories (CVE Program List v5). Informational only, no warranty — verify every remediation against the vendor advisory before acting on it. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD, CISA, FIRST.org or any vendor named. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.