CVE-2008-7214: brilaps mostlyce Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2008-7214 is a medium (CVSS 6.8) Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in brilaps mostlyce. EPSS estimates a 0.75% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 54.3% of scored vulnerabilities. 2 public exploits are recorded.

Timeline

1. 11-09-2009
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 07-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in administrator/index2.php in MOStlyCE before 2.4, as used in Mambo 4.6.3 and earlier, allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that add new administrator accounts via the save task in a com_users action, as demonstrated using a separate XSS vulnerability in mambots/editors/mostlyce/jscripts/tiny_mce/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php.

• CWE-352Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)The web application does not, or cannot, sufficiently verify whether a request was intentionally provided by the user who sent the request, which could have originated from an unauthorized actor.