CVE-2018-18449 — EmpireCMS 7

EmpireCMS 7.5 allows CSRF for adding a user account via an enews=AddUser action to e/admin/user/ListUser.php, a similar issue to CVE-2018-16339.

01What is this vulnerability?

EmpireCMS 7.5 allows CSRF for adding a user account via an enews=AddUser action to e/admin/user/ListUser.php, a similar issue to CVE-2018-16339.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-03-07T22:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T11:08:21.875Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/w3irdo001/demo/blob/master/3.html