Cross-Site Request Forgery in ForkCMS

published 2021-01-11 5y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also GHSA-pvgf-mrr4-cw7r , EUVD-2021-1153

cvss: 8.8; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.7%; EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 52%
public exploits: 0; none known

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Admin Console in Fork before 5.8.3 allows remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions as administrator to (1) approve the mass of the user's comments, (2) restoring a deleted user, (3) installing or running modules, (4) resetting the analytics, (5) pinging the mailmotor api, (6) uploading things to the media library, (7) exporting locale.

Patch / fix

fixed in 2 links 1

packagist forkcms/forkcms 5.8.3
fork-cms fork_cms 5.8.3

github.com/forkcms/forkcms#3123 pull request

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Exploit prediction

0.68% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 52% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	8.8	CVSS:3.1/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	3.1	8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
packagist	forkcms/forkcms	<5.8.3	5.8.3

Classification

Weakness

CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery

References

github.com /forkcms/forkcms/pull/3123
web, patch, third-party-advisory
fork-cms.com /blog/detail/fork-5.8.3-released
web, release-notes, vendor-advisory
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2020-23960
advisory

Sources

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