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Fencer Intel
high 8.8

CVE-2016-10522 json

Cross-site request forgery in rails_admin

published 2018-07-05 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-pxqr-8v54-m2hj , EUVD-2018-0419

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 62%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

rails_admin ruby gem <v1.1.1 is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. Non-GET methods were not validating CSRF tokens and, as a result, an attacker could hypothetically gain access to the application administrative endpoints exposed by the gem.

Patch / fix

  • rubygems rails_admin 1.1.1
  • rails_admin_project rails_admin 1.1.1

Exploit prediction

0.98% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 62% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • sourceclear.com https://www.sourceclear.com/blog/Rails_admin-Vulnerability-Disclosure/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • sourceclear.com https://www.sourceclear.com/registry/security/cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-/ruby/sid-3173 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
rubygems rails_admin
>=1.0.0, <1.1.1
1.1.1

Affected products

  • https://github.com/sferik rails_admin ruby gem

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery

References

Sources

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