Cross-Site Request Forgery dans Windu CMS

The primary impact of this CSRF vulnerability lies in the potential for unauthorized modification of user accounts. An attacker could leverage this flaw to change user roles, permissions, or other sensitive account settings. Given that Windu CMS allows open registration, an attacker could potentially create a new account, gain access, and then exploit the CSRF vulnerability to compromise other user accounts. This could lead to data breaches, privilege escalation, and disruption of CMS operations. The open registration aspect significantly broadens the attack surface, as attackers can easily create accounts to launch CSRF attacks.

Organizations utilizing Windu CMS for content management, particularly those with open registration enabled, are at risk. Shared hosting environments where multiple CMS instances reside on the same server are also at increased risk, as a compromise of one instance could potentially be leveraged to attack others.

• php / web:

curl -I 'http://your-windu-cms/admin/user/edit?csrf_token=malicious_token'

• php / web: Examine Windu CMS configuration files for any custom CSRF token validation logic that might be bypassed. • php / web: Review access logs for unusual requests to the /admin/user/edit endpoint with potentially manipulated CSRF tokens.

1. 2025-11-18Disclosure

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1. Réservé2025-09-09
2. Publiée2025-11-18
3. Modifiée2025-12-05
4. EPSS mis à jour2026-03-23

The recommended mitigation for CVE-2025-59110 is to immediately upgrade Windu CMS to version 4.1 build 2250. If upgrading is not immediately feasible, consider implementing a temporary workaround by enforcing stricter CSRF token validation on the user editing endpoint. This might involve implementing additional checks to ensure the token's validity and origin. Web application firewalls (WAFs) can also be configured to detect and block malicious CSRF requests targeting the user editing functionality. After upgrading, confirm the fix by attempting to modify a test user account through a crafted CSRF request; the request should be rejected.