Admidio: CSRF on Admin Preferences Triggers Unauthorized Backup, .htaccess Write, and Email Send
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Tampering
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · Low
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-352.
Summary
Admidio is an open-source user management solution. Prior to version 5.0.9, several administrative operations in Admidio's preferences module (database backup, test email, htaccess generation) fire via GET requests with no CSRF token validation. Because SameSite=Lax cookies travel with top-level GET navigations, an attacker forces an authenticated admin to trigger these actions from a malicious page. This issue has been patched in version 5.0.9.
Why it matters now
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Admidio | admidio | before 5.0.9 | 5.0.9 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | admidio/admidio (Packagist) | before 5.0.9 | 5.0.9 | Patch available | GHSA-rw74-vc9h-534j |
- admidio VendorAdmidio Affected before 5.0.9 Fixed in 5.0.9 Patch available CNA
- admidio/admidio (Packagist) Vendor— Affected before 5.0.9 Fixed in 5.0.9 Patch available GHSA-rw74-vc9h-534j
Remediation
- Fix · CNA admidio (Admidio) Fixed in 5.0.9
- Fix · GHSA-rw74-vc9h-534j admidio/admidio (Packagist) Fixed in 5.0.9 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-41663
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-rw74-vc9h-534j
References
More Admidio vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-25286 Admidio is Missing Authorization and CSRF Protection on Document and Folder Deletion CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
- TI-2026-56995 Admidio before 5.0.12 Authentication Bypass via RSS feeds CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-56993 Admidio before 5.0.12 SQL Injection via relation_type_list CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2024-25222 Admidio has Blind SQL Injection in ecard_send.php CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
- TI-2026-30186 Admidio: SAML Signature Validation Result Ignored — Forged AuthnRequests and LogoutRequests Processed CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.2
- TI-2024-25764 Admidio Vulnerable to RCE via Arbitrary File Upload in Message Attachment CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
Sources
- CVE-2026-41663 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-41663 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-rw74-vc9h-534j · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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