Cotonti CSRF in admin.rights.php allows privilege escalation
Priority MEDIUM 41CWE-352Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Passive
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Tampering
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-352.
Summary
Cotonti 1.0.0 (master branch, commit f43f1fc3) is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in the administration rights handler. In system/admin/admin.rights.php, the rights update action ('a=update') modifies group access rights (including via cot_auth_add_group) without calling cot_check_xg to validate the anti-CSRF token.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00151 4th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cotonti | Cotonti | 1.0.0 and later | — | No fix listed | CNA |
| — | cotonti/cotonti (Packagist) | up to 1.0.0 | — | No fix listed | GHSA-7g3p-35vc-mgjr |
- Cotonti VendorCotonti Affected 1.0.0 and later Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
- cotonti/cotonti (Packagist) Vendor— Affected up to 1.0.0 Fixed in — No fix listed GHSA-7g3p-35vc-mgjr
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-55742
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-7g3p-35vc-mgjr
References
More Cotonti vulnerabilities
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- TI-2026-63195 Cotonti through 1.0.0 Predictable Password Recovery Token via Weak PRNG CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.2
- TI-2026-41862 Cotonti Siena 0.9.26 CSRF via admin.php Config Update Endpoint CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-84359 Predictable tokens in Cotonti let attackers bypass email verification CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.3
- TI-2025-28591 A vulnerability has been found in Cotonti Siena v0.9.25. CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
- TI-2024-16007 A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Edit Page function of Cotonti… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
Sources
- CVE-2026-55742 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-55742 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-7g3p-35vc-mgjr · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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