Admin settings change via missing CSRF check
Published Jun 20, 2022 · Updated Aug 3, 2024
Cross-site request forgery in PDF24 Article To PDF through 4.2.2 allows remote attackers to alter administrator settings via crafted requests. The settings-update operation accepts state-changing requests without a CSRF token, allowing a logged-in administrator's browser to submit attacker-controlled changes. Exploitation requires the administrator to be authenticated and to interact with the malicious request; impact is limited to unauthorized configuration modification.
Summary
What happened
Cross-site request forgery in PDF24 Article To PDF through 4.2.2 allows remote attackers to alter administrator settings via crafted requests. The settings-update operation accepts state-changing requests without a CSRF token, allowing a logged-in administrator's browser to submit attacker-controlled changes. Exploitation requires the administrator to be authenticated and to interact with the malicious request; impact is limited to unauthorized configuration modification.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-1828
- Published
- Jun 20, 2022
- Updated
- Aug 3, 2024
- Vendor
- geek Software GmbH
- Product
- PDF24 Article To PDF
- Classifications
- CWE-352
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jun 20, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 3, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=4.2.2 <=4.2.2
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