Cross-site request forgery in auraCMS - CVE-2018-16338
Published: September 2, 2018 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU36745
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.6 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-16338
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
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 perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website, such as change the administrator's password via admin.php?mod=users and subsequently add a page or menu, or submit a topic.
Affected software
auraCMS
How to mitigate CVE-2018-16338
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.