CVE-2015-6655

medium

Published 2015-08-31 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Pligg CMS 2.0.2 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that add an administrator via a request to admin/admin_users.php.

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-37955 webapps php

Arash Khazaei · 2015-08-24

Pligg CMS 2.0.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (Add Admin)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
pligg	pligg_cms	`2.0.2`

References

CWEs

CWE-352

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

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