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CVE-2016-20053: Redaxo CMS 5.2 Cross-Site Request Forgery via users endpoint

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2026-04-04 · updated 2026-07-21
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Redaxo CMS 5.2 contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to create administrative user accounts by tricking authenticated administrators into visiting malicious pages. Attackers can craft HTML forms targeting the users endpoint with hidden fields containing admin credentials and account parameters to add new administrator accounts without user consent.

Affected products

• redaxo: 5.2

References

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40708
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/redaxo-cms-cross-site-request-forgery-via-users-endpoint

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