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CVE-2009-1780

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-1780 describes an authentication bypass vulnerability in Frax.dk Php Recommend version 1.3 and earlier. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to gain administrative privileges by manipulating the form_admin_user and form_admin_pass parameters to change the administrator's password. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered highly severe due to its low attack complexity and potential for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not on the CISA KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:frax:php_recommend:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.76%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-8658 · May 11, 2009
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0376 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

exploit-db.com / exploits/8658
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securityfocus.com / bid/34909
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/1287
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