Exploit / PoCcritical
0-Day Flaws in Vanilla Forums Let Remote Attackers Hack Websites
Vulnerabilities mentioned
All| CVE | Vulnerability | CVSS | EPSS | Signals | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2016-10033 | Command Injection RCE in PHPMailer (Ships with WordPress and Joomla) | 9.8 | 100% | KEVPoC ×14 | KEV |
| CVE-2016-10073 | The from method in library/core/class.email.php in Vanilla Forums before 2.3.1 allows remote attackers to spoof the email domain in sent messages and… | 7.5 | 84% | PoC ×3 |
Indicators of compromise
auto-extracted · verify before use · export allAll| Type | Indicator | Context |
|---|---|---|
| domain | attacker-mxserver.com | spoofed HTTP request with a custom HOST header (for example attacker-mxserver.com), while initiating a password reset process for a targeted |
From the original article
2 min read at thehackernews.com
A security researcher has publicly disclosed two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Vanilla Forums, an open source software that powers discussion on over 500,000 websites, which could allow unauthenticated, remote attackers to fully compromise targeted websites easily.
By @TheHackersNews · thehackernews.com
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