CVE-2008-7082 Information

Description

MyBB (aka MyBulletinBoard) 1.4.3 includes the sensitive my_post_key parameter in URLs to moderation.php with the (1) mergeposts (2) split and (3) deleteposts actions which allows remote attackers to steal the token and bypass the cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection mechanism to hijack the authentication of moderators by reading the token from the HTTP Referer header.

Reference

http://osvdb.org/50275 http://secunia.com/advisories/32880 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498630/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32467 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46885