CVE-2017-16244

Published November 1st, 2017

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CVSS v3

N/A

CVSS v2

6.8

MEDIUM

Affected

PROJECT

Description

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.

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