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Cross-Site Request Forgery occurrences in Maccms
A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in the component admin.php/admin/type/info.html of Maccms 10 allows attackers to gain administrator privileges. (2021-10-04, CVE-2020-21386)
A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in Maccms v10 via admin.php/admin/admin/del/ids/
A cross-site request forgery (CSRF) in Maccms 8.0 causes administrators to add and modify articles without their knowledge via clicking on a crafted URL. (2021-09-14, CVE-2020-21081)
Maccms 10 allows CSRF via admin.php/admin/admin/info.html to add user accounts. (2018-06-14, CVE-2018-12114)
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.