CVE-2024-46911: Apache Roller: Weakness in CSRF protection allows privilege escalation

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-10-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Cross-site Resource Forgery (CSRF), Privilege escalation vulnerability in Apache Roller. On multi-blog/user Roller websites, by default weblog owners are trusted to publish arbitrary weblog content and this combined with a deficiency in Roller's CSRF protections allowed an escalation of privileges attack. This issue affects Apache Roller before 6.1.4. Roller users who run multi-blog/user Roller websites are recommended to upgrade to version 6.1.4, which fixes the issue. Roller 6.1.4 release announcement: https://lists.apache.org/thread/3c3f6rwqptyw6wdc95654fq5vlosqdpw

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Roller: from 1.0 before 6.1.4 — fixed in 6.1.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Apache Software Foundation Apache Roller 6.1.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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