CVE-2016-20053

Redaxo CMS 5.2 contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to create administrative user accounts by tricking authenticated administrators into visiting malicious pages. Attackers can craft HTML forms targeting the users endpoint with hidden fields containing admin credentials and account parameters to add new administrator accounts without user consent.

Score

CVSS 4.0 6.9 Medium

Status

Analyzed - disclosure@vulncheck.com

Published

2026-04-04

Last modified

2026-04-06

Weaknesses

CWE-352

Affected products

• Redaxo (Redaxo)
• Redaxo Cms (Redaxo)

References

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40708
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/redaxo-cms-cross-site-request-forgery-via-users-endpoint