Cross-site request forgery in PHPlist - CVE-2011-1682
Published: April 13, 2011 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU45129
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2011-1682
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vendor: phplist.com
Affected software:
PHPlist
PHPlist
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 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.
How to mitigate CVE-2011-1682
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.