Cross-site request forgery in ATutor - CVE-2015-1583
Published: March 2, 2020 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU34806
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-1583
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: ATutor
Affected software:
ATutor
ATutor
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. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page and mods/_core/users/create_user.
How to mitigate CVE-2015-1583
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.
Sources
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130598/ATutor-LCMS-2.2-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72845
- https://edricteo.com/cve-2015-1583-atutor-lcms-csrf-vulnerability/
- https://github.com/atutor/ATutor/commit/068b8aa37f24645c62235018fb8da340f60e2d18
- https://github.com/atutor/ATutor/commit/0ee827317e497f1db86ddc5080b8af461e4595ce
- https://github.com/atutor/ATutor/commit/af519cfb56da7312eecbb5812484fcbce08e4419