Nodcms Cross Site Request Forgery via admin endpoints
Priority MEDIUM 57CWE-79Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting, Tampering
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-79 and CWE-352.
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.
Why it matters now
Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.0011 1st percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by the CNA and NVD
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nodcms | nodCMS | 1.0 | — | No fix listed | CNA |
| — | khodakhah/nodcms (Packagist) | up to 3.4.1 | — | No fix listed | GHSA-3qcm-pj6q-w4c5 |
- nodCMS Vendornodcms Affected 1.0 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
- khodakhah/nodcms (Packagist) Vendor— Affected up to 3.4.1 Fixed in — No fix listed GHSA-3qcm-pj6q-w4c5
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2016-20054
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-3qcm-pj6q-w4c5
References
Exploit 1
More Nodcms vulnerabilities
- TI-2023-03398 khodakhah NodCMS POST Request blog-comment-4 cross site scripting CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1
- TI-2020-13913 Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in khodakhah NodCMS v.3.0 allows a remote attacker to… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.8
Sources
- CVE-2016-20054 · CVE Program
- CVE-2016-20054 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-3qcm-pj6q-w4c5 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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