Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 20, 2009· Updated Apr 23, 2026

CVE-2008-6498

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in security/xamppsecurity.php in XAMPP 1.6.8 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for requests that change a certain .htaccess password via the xampppasswd parameter.

Affected products

Apachefriends/Xampp
cpe:2.3:a:apachefriends:xampp:1.6.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

secunia.com/advisories/32134nvdVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47201nvd
www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7384nvd

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