SB2011041302 - Cross-site request forgery in phplist.com PHPlist



SB2011041302 - Cross-site request forgery in phplist.com PHPlist

Published: April 13, 2011 Updated: August 11, 2020

Security Bulletin ID SB2011041302
Severity
Medium
Patch available
NO
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Data manipulation

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Cross-site request forgery (CVE-ID: CVE-2011-1682)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of the HTTP request origin. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page and hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) create a list or (2) insert cross-site scripting (XSS) sequences. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-0748.


Remediation

Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.