🛡️ CVE-2022-26173 — jforum

🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-352 NVD
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Description

JForum v2.8.0 was discovered to contain a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) via http://target_host:port/jforum-2.8.0/jforum.page, which allows attackers to arbitrarily add admin accounts.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-26173 is classified as CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). A state-changing request is accepted without proof it was intended, so another site can trigger it using the victim's session.

Affected software

CVE-2022-26173 is recorded against 1 package.

  • jforum

Timeline and source

Published on 16 June 2022 and last revised on 9 July 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

community.jforum.net
github.com
jforum.net
sourceforge.net
community.jforum.net
github.com
jforum.net
sourceforge.net

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-352
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2022-06-16
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-07-09
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
jforum

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