High severity · published Jan 18, 2017
CVE-2016-7980
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…
8.8
CVSS
4.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)4.1% · higher than 91% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SP
Spip · Spip
through 3.1.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7980
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7980
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/05/17
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/06/6
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/12/6
www.securityfocus.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93451
Issue Tracking
https://core.spip.net/projects/spip/repository/revisions/23201
Issue Tracking
https://core.spip.net/projects/spip/repository/revisions/23202
More from Spip
9.8
CVE-2026-72710
SPIP < 4.4.18 RCE via editer_objet.php Job Queue Injection
9.8
CVE-2026-72709
SPIP < 4.4.18 Missing Authorization via ecrire/action/
9.8
CVE-2026-77806
SPIP before 4.4.21 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, as exploited in the wild in August 2026
9.8
CVE-2026-77647
SPIP before 4.4.20 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, as exploited in the wild in August 2026
9.8
CVE-2024-8517
SPIP Bigup Multipart File Upload OS Command Injection