High
Security advisory
BigTree CMS through 4.2.17 relies on a substring check for CSRF protection, which allows remote attackers to bypass this check by placing the required admin/developer/ URI within a query string in an HTTP Referer header. This was found in core/admin/modules/developer/_header.php and patched in core/inc/bigtree/admin.php on 2017-04-14.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-7881
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:04 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
BigTree CMS through 4.2.17 relies on a substring check for CSRF protection, which allows remote attackers to bypass this check by placing the required admin/developer/ URI within a query string in an HTTP Referer header. This was found in core/admin/modules/developer/_header.php and patched in core/inc/bigtree/admin.php on 2017-04-14.
osv:CVE-2017-7881
Complete source record
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