CVE-2016-7980

high
Published 2017-01-18 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
8.8

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in ecrire/exec/valider_xml.php in SPIP 3.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that execute the XML validator on a local file via a crafted valider_xml request. NOTE: this issue can be combined with CVE-2016-7998 to execute arbitrary PHP code.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-7980

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://core.spip.net/projects/spip/repository/revisions/23203

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://core.spip.net/projects/spip/repository/revisions/23202

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://core.spip.net/projects/spip/repository/revisions/23201

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/06/6

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbullseyefixed3.1.3-1
debian debiansidfixed3.1.3-1
debian debiantrixiefixed3.1.3-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
spipspip{"endIncluding":"3.1.2"}

References

CWEs

CWE-352

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