CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-16244

8.8 HIGH Published 2017-11-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-11-01
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-352

Description

Cross-Site Request Forgery exists in OctoberCMS 1.0.426 (aka Build 426) due to improper validation of CSRF tokens for postback handling, allowing an attacker to successfully take over the victim's account. The attack bypasses a protection mechanism involving X-CSRF headers and CSRF tokens via a certain _handler postback variable.

Affected configurations

• octobercms october 1.0.426

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery weakness

References