High
Security advisory
Poor cryptographic salt initialization in admin/inc/template_functions.php in GetSimple CMS 3.3.13 allows a network attacker to escalate privileges to an arbitrary user or conduct CSRF attacks via calculation of a session cookie or CSRF nonce.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-8081
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:19 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Poor cryptographic salt initialization in admin/inc/template_functions.php in GetSimple CMS 3.3.13 allows a network attacker to escalate privileges to an arbitrary user or conduct CSRF attacks via calculation of a session cookie or CSRF nonce.
osv:CVE-2017-8081
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:50:10.334620463Z",
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"references": [
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