CVE-2008-6498: Apachefriends Xampp

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in security/xamppsecurity.php in XAMPP 1.6.8 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for requests that change a certain .htaccess password via the xampppasswd parameter.

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Published 2009-03-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.