CVE-2008-7269

medium

Published 2010-12-01 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.8

Description

Open redirect vulnerability in api.php in SiteEngine 5.x allows user-assisted remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via a URL in the forward parameter in a logout action.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-32523 webapps php verified

xuanmumu · 2008-10-23

UC Gateway Investment SiteEngine 5.0 - 'api.php' Open Redirection

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
boka	siteengine	`5.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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