Medium severity5.9NVD Advisory· Published Apr 23, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026

CVE-2016-2564

Description

Invision Power Services (IPS) Community Suite before 4.1.9 makes session hijack easier by relying on the PHP uniqid function without the more_entropy flag. Attackers can guess an Invision Power Board session cookie if they can predict the exact time of cookie generation.

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

invisionpower.com/release-notes/419-r37/nvdRelease NotesVendor Advisory
medium.com/%40iancarroll/bypassing-authentication-in-invision-power-board-with-cve-2016-2564-9a24ea3655f9nvd

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