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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-18380

A Session Fixation issue was discovered in Bigtree before 4.2.24. admin.php accepts a user-provided PHP session ID instead of regenerating a new one after a user has logged in to the application. The Session Fixation could allow an attacker to hijack an admin session.

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CVE-2018-18380
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31 Oct 2026, 10:42 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2018-18380

core-osv · Original source

Published 19 Oct 2018, 20:29 UTC

A Session Fixation issue was discovered in Bigtree before 4.2.24. admin.php accepts a user-provided PHP session ID instead of regenerating a new one after a user has logged in to the application. The Session Fixation could allow an attacker to hijack an admin session.

osv:CVE-2018-18380
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-18380",
  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "A Session Fixation issue was discovered in Bigtree before 4.2.24. admin.php accepts a user-provided PHP session ID instead of regenerating a new one after a user has logged in to the application. The Session Fixation could allow an attacker to hijack an admin session.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:51:21.435543114Z",
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        "https://github.com/bigtreecms/BigTree-CMS/tree/4.2.24",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 382532,
  "published_at": "2018-10-19T20:29:00.257+00:00"
}