Description

Snews CMS 1.7 contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability that allows attackers to change administrator credentials without authentication by crafting malicious HTML forms. Attackers can trick authenticated administrators into visiting a page containing a hidden form that submits POST requests to the changeup action, modifying the admin username and password parameters to gain unauthorized access.

INFO

Published Date :

2026-04-04T13:50:56.558Z

Last Modified :

2026-04-04T19:59:42.176Z

Source :

VulnCheck
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2016-20051 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Snewscms
  • Snews
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2016-20051.

URL Resource
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40705 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/snews-cms-cross-site-request-forgery-via-changeup cve-icon cve-icon
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