CVE-2016-3735

mediumpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.014 · 72 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.36% (72nd) EPSS

CVSS 6.8 · medium

Is it mine?

2 products

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Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Piwigo is image gallery software written in PHP. When a criteria is not met on a host, piwigo defaults to usingmt_rand in order to generate password reset tokens. mt_rand output can be predicted after recovering the seed used to generate it. This low an unauthenticated attacker to take over an account providing they know an administrators email address in order to be able to request password reset.

cvss

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

8.1

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.8–8.1

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

v3.18.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.2 · impact 5.9

v3.17.4highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-335USprimary

affected products (2)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a piwigopiwigo → 2.8.1enisa_euvdEU
piwigo piwigo< 2.8.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:piwigo:piwigo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2022-01-28modified 2026-06-17

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references (10)

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