Administrator password change via forged settings request
Published Jan 19, 2021 · Updated Aug 4, 2024
Cross-site request forgery in Pixelimity CMS 1.0 allows remote attackers to change an administrator password through a crafted request. The admin/setting.php handler accepts the data[Password] parameter from a browser request without validating that the administrator intentionally submitted it. Exploitation requires an authenticated administrator's browser to submit the attacker-controlled request, after which the attacker-selected password replaces the existing credential.
Summary
What happened
Cross-site request forgery in Pixelimity CMS 1.0 allows remote attackers to change an administrator password through a crafted request. The admin/setting.php handler accepts the data[Password] parameter from a browser request without validating that the administrator intentionally submitted it. Exploitation requires an authenticated administrator's browser to submit the attacker-controlled request, after which the attacker-selected password replaces the existing credential.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2020-23522
- Published
- Jan 19, 2021
- Updated
- Aug 4, 2024
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-352, CAPEC-62
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Jan 19, 2021CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 4, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- GitHub issue 20 proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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