CVE-2008-5708

HIGH 7.5CVE-2008-5708 · Published 24/12/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-5708 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting slimcms (slimcms).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.6%, higher than 85.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
slimcms slimcms	`= 1.0.0`	No fix yet

Description

redirect.php in SlimCMS 1.0.0 does not require authentication, which allows remote attackers to create administrative users by using the newusername and newpassword parameters and setting the newisadmin parameter to 1.

References

securityreason.com/securityalert/4804
securityfocus.com/bid/31736
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45824
exploit-db.com/exploits/6729

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