CVE-2008-6790

Exp

The admin module in MindDezign Photo Gallery 2.2 allows remote attackers to add administrative users and gain privileges via a modified username parameter in an edit account action to index.php.

Published: 2009-05-04 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
View at NVD, CVE.org, EUVD

CVE-2008-6790 is rated High Exploit Risk (66.4/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.47%). 2 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-2008-6790

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
6820 exploit_db edb 2008-10-23 Exploit-DB ↗
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-6790

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 2026-05-04 3.12% 3.47% +0.35%
2 2025-12-17 1.52% 3.12% +1.60%
3 2025-03-30 — 1.52% —

Full EPSS history (7 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-6790

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.1 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:H/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:H)
Exploitation requires uncommon or highly specific conditions.
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.
 4.9 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2008-6790

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-6790

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
minddezign photo_gallery 2.2 cpe:2.3:a:minddezign:photo_gallery:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-6790

cvelogic Threat Intelligence