CVE-2007-1949
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedSession fixation vulnerability in WebBlizzard CMS allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions by setting a PHPSESSID cookie.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceSession fixation vulnerability in WebBlizzard CMS allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions by pre-setting the PHPSESSID cookie value before victim authentication. The application accepts user-supplied session IDs without regenerating them upon login, enabling attackers to establish a known session ID and then hijack the authenticated session.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE dataall versionsCVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Authentication
- None
- Confidentiality
- Partial
- Integrity
- Partial
- Availability
- Partial
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Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Confirm WebBlizzard CMS installationSearch the webroot for files or directories containing 'webblizzard' or 'cms' identifiers, or check for login pages that match the CMS branding.Affected if WebBlizzard CMS is present in the environment.
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Inspect login processing codeLocate the login authentication script (typically in an admin or user authentication module) and examine whether session_regenerate_id() is called after successful credential validation.Affected if The login script does not call session_regenerate_id() upon successful authentication.
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Check session initialization behaviorExamine the session start logic to determine if the application uses the PHPSESSID value directly from the user request without generating a new ID.Affected if The application accepts and uses the client-provided PHPSESSID without generating a fresh session ID.
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Verify session ID validationReview code that handles the PHPSESSID cookie to see if the application validates that the session ID was issued by the server rather than accepting arbitrary user-supplied values.Affected if The application accepts arbitrary session IDs without validating their origin.
If WebBlizzard CMS is installed and its login flow does not regenerate session IDs or validate user-supplied PHPSESSID values, the environment is vulnerable to session fixation attacks.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
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From vendor dataRegenerate session ID upon successful authentication using session_regenerate_id() and destroy the old session to prevent session fixation attacks. Additionally, validate and reject user-supplied session IDs that don't match server-issued values.
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