Cross-site request forgery in iCMS - CVE-2018-16314
Published: September 1, 2018 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU36752
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-2018-16314
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: iCMS
Affected software:
iCMS
iCMS
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 perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website, such as be bypassed via an admincp.php substring in this header.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-16314
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.