CVE-2009-4851: Xoops

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The activation resend function in the Profiles module in XOOPS before 2.4.1 sends activation codes in response to arbitrary activation requests, which allows remote attackers to bypass administrative approval via a request involving activate.php.

Affected products

• Xoops Xoops: up to and including 2.4.0; version 1.0 only; version 1.0_rc1 only; version 1.0_rc3 only; version 1.0_rc3.0.5 only; version 1.3.5 only; …

Published 2010-05-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.