CVE-2020-23960

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2021-01-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Admin Console in Fork before 5.8.3 allows remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions as administrator to (1) approve the mass of the user's comments, (2) restoring a deleted user, (3) installing or running modules, (4) resetting the analytics, (5) pinging the mailmotor api, (6) uploading things to the media library, (7) exporting locale.

Affected products

forkcms/forkcms: before 5.8.3 — fixed in 5.8.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: forkcms/forkcms 5.8.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/forkcms/forkcms/pull/3123
https://www.fork-cms.com/blog/detail/fork-5.8.3-released
https://github.com/forkcms/forkcms/pull/3123
https://www.fork-cms.com/blog/detail/fork-5.8.3-released

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