CVE-2016-7980: Spip

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 4.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in ecrire/exec/valider_xml.php in SPIP 3.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that execute the XML validator on a local file via a crafted valider_xml request. NOTE: this issue can be combined with CVE-2016-7998 to execute arbitrary PHP code.

Affected products

• Spip Spip: up to and including 3.1.2

Published 2017-01-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.