CVE-2008-2043 — Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in cPanel, possibly 11.18.3 and 11.19.3, allow remote attackers to (1) execute arbitrary code via the command1 parameter to frontend/x2/cron/editcronsimple.html, and perform various administrative actions via (2) frontend/x2/sql/adddb.html, (3) frontend/x2/sql/adduser.html, and (4) frontend/x2/ftp/doaddftp.html

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Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in cPanel, possibly 11.18.3 and 11.19.3, allow remote attackers to (1) execute arbitrary code via the command1 parameter to frontend/x2/cron/editcronsimple.html, and perform various administrative actions via (2) frontend/x2/sql/adddb.html, (3) frontend/x2/sql/adduser.html, and (4) frontend/x2/ftp/doaddftp.html

Published May 1, 2008

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.34%

Description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in cPanel, possibly 11.18.3 and 11.19.3, allow remote attackers to (1) execute arbitrary code via the command1 parameter to frontend/x2/cron/editcronsimple.html, and perform various administrative actions via (2) frontend/x2/sql/adddb.html, (3) frontend/x2/sql/adduser.html, and (4) frontend/x2/ftp/doaddftp.html.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.34% 0.01339

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01339

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.34% (0.01339)	70.26th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.34% (0.01339)	67.49th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.51% (0.00510)	64.34th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.99% (0.00987)	84.17th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Nov 10, 2023	0.94% (0.00939)	81.28th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	1.11% (0.01115)	82.31th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	6.31% (0.06309)	90.90th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	6.31% (0.06309)	90.06th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	6.31% (0.06309)	77.91th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-352

CSRF

References (5)

http://secunia.com/advisories/30027
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/584089
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource
http://www.rooksecurity.com/blog/?p=7
x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1401/references
vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42114
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/30027		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/584089		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource
http://www.rooksecurity.com/blog/?p=7		x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1401/references		vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42114		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published May 1, 2008

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved May 1, 2008

Link CVE-2008-2043

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2008-2043

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2008-2043