Improper Authentication Affecting genix/cms package, versions <1.1.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.21% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PHP-GENIXCMS-6674137
  • published 26 Apr 2024
  • disclosed 13 May 2022
  • credit Homaebic

How to fix?

Upgrade genix/cms to version 1.1.0 or higher.

Overview

genix/cms is a Simple and Free Opensource CMS and Framework.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Authentication due to the mailbox validation logic. An attacker can bypass the alertDanger MSG_USER_EMAIL_EXIST protection mechanism by making a register.php?act=edit&id=1 request.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

5.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    None