The dotCMS administration panel, versions 3.7.1 and earlier, are vulnerable to cross-site request forgery

8.8 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

The dotCMS administration panel, versions 3.7.1 and earlier, are vulnerable to cross-site request forgery. The dotCMS administrator panel contains a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability. An attacker can perform actions with the same permissions as a victim user, provided the victim has an active session and is induced to trigger the malicious request. An unauthenticated remote attacker may perform actions with the dotCMS administrator panel with the same permissions of a victim user or execute arbitrary system commands with the permissions of the user running the dotCMS application.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

Thanks to: [1]SafeDog Penetration and Defense Lab:darong tong [2]SafeDog Penetration and Defense Lab:yong cai [3]shaohong wu for reporting these vulnerabilities.