CVE-2016-10073 affects Vanilla Forums versions prior to 2.3.1, allowing remote attackers to spoof the email domain in sent messages through a crafted HTTP Host header. This vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), has a low attack complexity and requires no user interaction, potentially leading to sensitive information disclosure, such as during password reset requests. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available via ExploitDB (though for RCE, not the described spoofing), and a Metasploit module exists for detection. The vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the cybersecurity community.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vanillaforums:vanilla:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.