CVE-2013-7236

high
Published 2014-04-29 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Simple Machines Forum (SMF) 2.0.6, 1.1.19, and earlier allows remote attackers to impersonate arbitrary users via a Unicode homoglyph character in a username.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum{"endIncluding":"1.1.9"}
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.0
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.0.1
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.0.2
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.0.3
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.0.4
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.0.5
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.0.6
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.0.7
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.0.8
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.0.9
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.0.10
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.0.12
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.0.13
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.0.14
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.0.15
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.0.16
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.0.17
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.0.18
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.0.19
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.0.20
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.0.21
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.0.22
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.0.23
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.1
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.1.1
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.1.2
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.1.3
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.1.4
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.1.5
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.1.6
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.1.7
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.1.8
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.1.10
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.1.11
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.1.12
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.1.13
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.1.14
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.1.15
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.1.16
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum1.1.17
simplemachinessimple_machines_forum2.0.6

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.