CVE-2016-20053 (GCVE-0-2016-20053)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-04 13:50 – Updated: 2026-04-06 13:29
VLAI
Title
Redaxo CMS 5.2 Cross-Site Request Forgery via users endpoint
Summary
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.
Severity
6.9 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-352 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Redaxo Redaxo CMS Affected: 5.2
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Date Public
2016-01-11 00:00
Credits
Ashiyane Digital Security Team
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