CVE-2008-6498

mediumpriority · track · 37EPSS 0.010 · 64 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

2 exploits · functional

Likely / severe?

1.05% (64th) EPSS

CVSS 6.8 · medium

Is it mine?

2 products

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Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.06.8mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 6.4

v2.06.1mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:POCsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

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CWE-352USprimary

exploits (2)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-10391XAMPP 1.7.2 - Change Administrative Passwordfunctional · exploit_db
EDB-7384XAMPP 1.6.8 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (Change Administrative Password)functional · exploit_db

affected products (2)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
apachefriends xampp= 1.6.8nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apachefriends:xampp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

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sources

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enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2009-03-20modified 2026-06-16

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references (6)

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