CVE-2016-20051

Description

Snews CMS 1.7 contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability that allows attackers to change administrator credentials without authentication by crafting malicious HTML forms. Attackers can trick authenticated administrators into visiting a page containing a hidden form that submits POST requests to the changeup action, modifying the admin username and password parameters to gain unauthorized access.

CVSS Vector

References

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40705
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/snews-cms-cross-site-request-forgery-via-changeup