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Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Apr 4, 2026· Updated Jul 21, 2026

CVE-2016-20051

CVE-2016-20051

Description

Snews CMS 1.7 contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability that allows attackers to change administrator credentials without authentication by crafting malicious HTML forms. Attackers can trick authenticated administrators into visiting a page containing a hidden form that submits POST requests to the changeup action, modifying the admin username and password parameters to gain unauthorized access.

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Affected products

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  • Snewscms/Snews2 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:snewscms:snews:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:snewscms:snews:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=1.7
    • (no CPE)range: =1.7

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