Cross-site request forgery in cformsII - #VU20058
Published: August 12, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU20058
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: N/A
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Oliver Seidel, Bastian Germann
Affected software:
cformsII
cformsII
Detailed vulnerability description
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 in the lib_aux.php script. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website, such as send out emails with arbitrary HTML content to any email address.
Remediation
Install updates from vendor's website.