Administrator account creation via CSRF
Published Sep 13, 2021 · Updated Aug 4, 2024
Cross-site request forgery in Kitesky KiteCMS 1.1 allows remote attackers to add an administrator account through a victim's authenticated browser. The published report identifies the administrator-account creation action as accepting a forged cross-site request; implementation details of the missing validation are not disclosed. Exploitation requires a logged-in privileged user to load attacker-controlled content, and a successful request creates a new administrator account that can enable full CMS control.
Summary
What happened
Cross-site request forgery in Kitesky KiteCMS 1.1 allows remote attackers to add an administrator account through a victim's authenticated browser. The published report identifies the administrator-account creation action as accepting a forged cross-site request; implementation details of the missing validation are not disclosed. Exploitation requires a logged-in privileged user to load attacker-controlled content, and a successful request creates a new administrator account that can enable full CMS control.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2020-20671
- Published
- Sep 13, 2021
- Updated
- Aug 4, 2024
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-352, CAPEC-62, T1189
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Sep 13, 2021CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 4, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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Attacks
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Public exploit references
- KiteCMS CSRF administrator-account creation proof of conceptproof of concept · unverified
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