CVE-2021-32076: SolarWinds Web Help Desk

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Access Restriction Bypass via referrer spoof was discovered in SolarWinds Web Help Desk 12.7.2. An attacker can access the 'Web Help Desk Getting Started Wizard', especially the admin account creation page, from a non-privileged IP address network range or loopback address by intercepting the HTTP request and changing the referrer from the public IP address to the loopback.

Affected products

  • SolarWinds Web Help Desk: up to and including 12.7.2

Published 2021-08-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.