CVE-2007-5918

Exp

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in edit.php in the MS TopSites add-on for PHP-Nuke does not verify that the uname parameter matches the current account, which allows remote authenticated users to change arbitrary accounts or change the SiteTitleName field as an arbitrary user via a modified uname value in an edit action to modules.php.

Published: 2007-11-10 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2007-5918 is rated Exploit Available (51.9/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.18%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2007-5918

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
30745 exploit_db edb 2007-11-06 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2007-5918

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 2025-03-17 0.29% 0.18% -0.11%
2 2023-03-07 4.19% 0.29% -3.90%
3 2022-02-04 4.19%

Full EPSS history (3 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2007-5918

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/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:S)
A single authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
6.8 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2007-5918

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2007-5918

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
ms_topsites ms_topsites cpe:2.3:a:ms_topsites:ms_topsites:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2007-5918

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