CVE-2007-1520

Exp

The cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection in PHP-Nuke 8.0 and earlier does not ensure the SERVER superglobal is an array before validating the HTTP_REFERER, which allows remote attackers to conduct CSRF attacks.

Published: 2007-03-20 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2007-1520 is rated High Exploit Risk (68.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.80%). 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2007-1520

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2007-1520

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-04-13 0.65% 0.80% +0.15%
2 2025-12-29 0.47% 0.65% +0.18%
3 2025-03-30 — 0.47% —

Full EPSS history (15 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2007-1520

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.8 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 8.6 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2007-1520

OS Trackers for CVE-2007-1520

vendor priority summary link
alpine — CVE-2007-1520: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2007-1520

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2007-1520

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
phpnuke php-nuke <= 8.0 cpe:2.3:a:phpnuke:php-nuke:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
phpnuke php-nuke 5.6 cpe:2.3:a:phpnuke:php-nuke:5.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
phpnuke php-nuke 6.5 cpe:2.3:a:phpnuke:php-nuke:6.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
phpnuke php-nuke 7.0 cpe:2.3:a:phpnuke:php-nuke:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
phpnuke php-nuke 7.1 cpe:2.3:a:phpnuke:php-nuke:7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
phpnuke php-nuke 7.2 cpe:2.3:a:phpnuke:php-nuke:7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
phpnuke php-nuke 7.3 cpe:2.3:a:phpnuke:php-nuke:7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
phpnuke php-nuke 7.4 cpe:2.3:a:phpnuke:php-nuke:7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
phpnuke php-nuke 7.5 cpe:2.3:a:phpnuke:php-nuke:7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
phpnuke php-nuke 7.6 cpe:2.3:a:phpnuke:php-nuke:7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
phpnuke php-nuke 7.7 cpe:2.3:a:phpnuke:php-nuke:7.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
phpnuke php-nuke 7.8 cpe:2.3:a:phpnuke:php-nuke:7.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
phpnuke php-nuke 7.9 cpe:2.3:a:phpnuke:php-nuke:7.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2007-1520

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