CVE-2015-2680

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-03-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in MetalGenix GeniXCMS before 0.0.2 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that add an administrator account via a request in the users page to gxadmin/index.php.

Affected products

Metalgenix Genixcms: through 0.0.1

References

http://blog.metalgenix.com/genixcms-v0-0-2-release-security-and-bug-fixes/17
http://blog.metalgenix.com/update-security-fix-and-add-newsletter-module/16
http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/119391
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130772/GeniXCMS-0.0.1-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36321
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73299
http://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2015-5234.php
https://github.com/semplon/GeniXCMS/commit/698245488343396185b1b49e7482ee5b25541815
https://github.com/semplon/GeniXCMS/issues/7
http://blog.metalgenix.com/genixcms-v0-0-2-release-security-and-bug-fixes/17
http://blog.metalgenix.com/update-security-fix-and-add-newsletter-module/16
http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/119391

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