VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-8081

CVSS score8.8 HIGH
EPSS probability1.26%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-04-30
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

Poor cryptographic salt initialization in admin/inc/template_functions.php in GetSimple CMS 3.3.13 allows a network attacker to escalate privileges to an arbitrary user or conduct CSRF attacks via calculation of a session cookie or CSRF nonce.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-338: Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)

Primary references