CVE-2008-3573 describes a critical CAPTCHA bypass vulnerability affecting Pligg 9.9.5 and potentially Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 8.1. The flaw allows remote attackers to solve the CAPTCHA by extracting a "ts_random" value from the image URL and combining it with the current date and User-Agent string. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity, leading to a potential integrity impact. While not actively exploited in the wild and absent from Metasploit and Nuclei, an exploit for Pligg CMS 9.9.5 is available on ExploitDB, though community discussion and media coverage are minimal.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
8.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:php-nuke:php-nuke:8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.9.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pligg:pligg:9.9.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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