Unauthorized profile changes via unprotected POST requests
Published Mar 25, 2022 · Updated Jul 9, 2026
Cross-site request forgery in Typesetter CMS 5.1 allows remote attackers to alter an authenticated user's profile via a crafted POST request. The /User endpoint accepts Save Settings requests carrying alias, homepage, and email fields without request-bound anti-CSRF validation. A victim with an active Typesetter session must load attacker-controlled HTML; the demonstrated consequence is unauthorized profile modification.
Summary
What happened
Cross-site request forgery in Typesetter CMS 5.1 allows remote attackers to alter an authenticated user's profile via a crafted POST request. The /User endpoint accepts Save Settings requests carrying alias, homepage, and email fields without request-bound anti-CSRF validation. A victim with an active Typesetter session must load attacker-controlled HTML; the demonstrated consequence is unauthorized profile modification.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-25523
- Published
- Mar 25, 2022
- Updated
- Jul 9, 2026
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-352
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Mar 25, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jul 9, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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Public exploit references
- Typesetter /User CSRF proof of conceptproof of concept · unverified
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