Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Admin Console in Fork…
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Tampering
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-352.
Summary
Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Admin Console in Fork before 5.8.3 allows remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions as administrator to (1) approve the mass of the user's comments, (2) restoring a deleted user, (3) installing or running modules, (4) resetting the analytics, (5) pinging the mailmotor api, (6) uploading things to the media library, (7) exporting locale.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | all versions | — | No fix listed | CNA |
| — | forkcms/forkcms (Packagist) | before 5.8.3 | 5.8.3 | Patch available | GHSA-pvgf-mrr4-cw7r |
- — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
- forkcms/forkcms (Packagist) Vendor— Affected before 5.8.3 Fixed in 5.8.3 Patch available GHSA-pvgf-mrr4-cw7r
Remediation
- Fix · GHSA-pvgf-mrr4-cw7r forkcms/forkcms (Packagist) Fixed in 5.8.3 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2020-23960
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-pvgf-mrr4-cw7r
References
More forkcms Fork Cms vulnerabilities
- TI-2019-11621 Spoon Library through 2014-02-06, as used in Fork CMS before 1.4.1 and other products… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2020-14780 PHP object injection in the Ajax endpoint of the backend in ForkCMS below version 5.8.3… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2022-00960 SQL injection through marking blog comments on bulk as spam in forkcms/forkcms CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2021-09868 Arbitrary file upload vulnerability in Fork CMS 5.9.2 allows attackers to create or… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2020-14508 Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) in Fork-CMS before 5.8.2 allow remote attackers to… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2015-01330 Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in Translations in Fork CMS before 3.8.6 allow… CVSS 2.0HIGH 7.5
Sources
- CVE-2020-23960 · CVE Program
- CVE-2020-23960 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-pvgf-mrr4-cw7r · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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