What is CVE-2018-8972?

CVE-2018-8972 is a high-severity vulnerability in Creditwestbank Cwcms, classified under Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2018-03-24.

How severe is CVE-2018-8972?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

CSRF in Creditwestbank Cwcms

CVE-2018-8972

Creditwest Bank CMS Project (aka CWCMS) through 2017-07-28 has CSRF in the functionality for updating the site configuration, which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary PHP code, as demonstrated by a PHP shell that calls eval on request parameters.

Vulnerability class: CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

EPSS: 0.006 (44.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Creditwestbank Cwcms
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-352 — Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-8972?: CVE-2018-8972 is a high-severity vulnerability in Creditwestbank Cwcms, classified under Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2018-03-24.
How severe is CVE-2018-8972?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.