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Cross-Site Request Forgery occurrences in Cms Made Simple
CMS Made Simple (aka CMSMS) 2.2.7 has CSRF in admin/moduleinterface.php. (2018-04-11, CVE-2018-10031)
CMS Made Simple (aka CMSMS) 2.2.7 has CSRF in admin/siteprefs.php. (2018-04-11, CVE-2018-10030)
CMS Made Simple version versions 2.2.5 contains a Cross ite Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Admin profile page that can result in Details can be found here http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/bug/view/11715. This attack appear to be exploitable via A specially crafted web page. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.2.6. (2018-03-13, CVE-2018-1000092)
Why Cross-Site Request Forgery can be dangerous
The absence of Anti-CSRF tokens may lead to a Cross-Site Request Forgery attack that can result in executing a specific application action as another logged in user, e.g. steal their account by changing their email and password or silently adding a new admin user account when executed from the administrator account.
The attacker may copy one of your web application forms, e.g. email/password change form.
The webpage will contain a form with the exact set of fields as the original application but with input values already provided and the submit button replaced with a Javascript code causing auto-submission. When the page is accessed the form will be immediately submitted and page contents replaced with a valid content or a redirect to your original application.
One of your application users who is already logged in can be then tricked to navigate to such malicious page e.g. by clicking a link in a phishing email, and the pre-populated form content will be submitted to your application like it would be submitted by your user.