CVE-2017-16244

Cross-Site Request Forgery exists in OctoberCMS 1.0.426 (aka Build 426) due to improper validation of CSRF tokens for postback handling, allowing an attacker to successfully take over the victim's account. The attack bypasses a protection mechanism involving X-CSRF headers and CSRF tokens via a certain _handler postback variable.

Score

CVSS 3.0 8.8 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-11-01

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-352

Affected products

• October (Octobercms)

References

• https://github.com/octobercms/october/commit/4a6e0e1e0e2c3facebc17e0db38c5b4d4cb05bd0
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43106/