CVE-2020-4040 Information

Description

Bolt CMS before version 3.7.1 lacked CSRF protection in the preview generating endpoint. Previews are intended to be generated by the admins developers chief-editors and editors who are authorized to create content in the application. But due to lack of proper CSRF protection unauthorized users could generate a preview. This has been fixed in Bolt 3.7.1

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Reference

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/158299/Bolt-CMS-3.7.0-XSS-CSRF-Shell-Upload.html http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Jul/4 https://github.com/bolt/bolt/commit/b42cbfcf3e3108c46a80581216ba03ef449e419f https://github.com/bolt/bolt/pull/7853 https://github.com/bolt/bolt/security/advisories/GHSA-2q66-6cc3-6xm8

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

4.3