CVE-2016-20054 (GCVE-0-2016-20054)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-04 19:59 – Updated: 2026-04-04 19:59
VLAI?
Title
Nodcms Cross Site Request Forgery via admin endpoints
Summary
Nodcms contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability that allows attackers to perform unauthorized administrative actions by crafting malicious forms. Attackers can trick authenticated administrators into submitting requests to admin/user_manipulate and admin/settings/generall endpoints to create users or modify application settings without explicit consent.
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
nodcms nodCMS Affected: 1.0
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Credits
Ashiyane Digital Security Team
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