CVE-2020-8510

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2020-8510 · Published 03/02/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-8510 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting phpabook (phpabook project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.2%, higher than 69.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
phpabook phpabook_project	`= 0.9`	No fix yet

Description

An issue was discovered in phpABook 0.9 Intermediate. On the login page, if one sets a userInfo cookie with the value of admin+1+en (user+perms+lang), one can login as any user without a password.

References

0xem.ma/cve/2020/01/31/CVE-2020-8510.html · Third Party Advisory
sourceforge.net/p/phpabook/news · Third Party Advisory

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