VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-1297

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Published 2012-03-19 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.8

Description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in main.php in Contao (formerly TYPOlight) 2.11.0 and earlier allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) delete users via a delete action in the user module, (2) delete news via a delete action in the news module, or (3) delete newsletters via a delete action in the newsletters module.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-18527 webapps php
Ivano Binetti · 2012-02-26

ContaoCMS (aka TYPOlight) 2.11 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (Delete Admin / Delete Article)

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
contaocontao_cms{"endIncluding":"2.11.0"}
contaocontao_cms2.0
contaocontao_cms2.1.0
contaocontao_cms2.1.1
contaocontao_cms2.1.2
contaocontao_cms2.1.3
contaocontao_cms2.1.4
contaocontao_cms2.1.5
contaocontao_cms2.1.6
contaocontao_cms2.1.7
contaocontao_cms2.1.8
contaocontao_cms2.1.9
contaocontao_cms2.1.10
contaocontao_cms2.1.11
contaocontao_cms2.1.12
contaocontao_cms2.1.13
contaocontao_cms2.1.14
contaocontao_cms2.1.15
contaocontao_cms2.1.16
contaocontao_cms2.1.17
contaocontao_cms2.1.18
contaocontao_cms2.1.19
contaocontao_cms2.1.20
contaocontao_cms2.2.0
contaocontao_cms2.2.1
contaocontao_cms2.2.2
contaocontao_cms2.2.3
contaocontao_cms2.2.4
contaocontao_cms2.2.5
contaocontao_cms2.2.6
contaocontao_cms2.2.7
contaocontao_cms2.2.8
contaocontao_cms2.2.9
contaocontao_cms2.2.10
contaocontao_cms2.2.11
contaocontao_cms2.2.12
contaocontao_cms2.3.0
contaocontao_cms2.3.1
contaocontao_cms2.3.2
contaocontao_cms2.3.3
contaocontao_cms2.3.4
contaocontao_cms2.4.0
contaocontao_cms2.4.1
contaocontao_cms2.4.2
contaocontao_cms2.4.3
contaocontao_cms2.4.4
contaocontao_cms2.4.5
contaocontao_cms2.4.6
contaocontao_cms2.4.7
contaocontao_cms2.5.0
contaocontao_cms2.5.1
contaocontao_cms2.5.2
contaocontao_cms2.5.3
contaocontao_cms2.5.4
contaocontao_cms2.5.5
contaocontao_cms2.5.6
contaocontao_cms2.5.7
contaocontao_cms2.5.8
contaocontao_cms2.5.9
contaocontao_cms2.6.0
contaocontao_cms2.6.1
contaocontao_cms2.6.2
contaocontao_cms2.6.3
contaocontao_cms2.6.4
contaocontao_cms2.6.5
contaocontao_cms2.6.6
contaocontao_cms2.6.7
contaocontao_cms2.6.8
contaocontao_cms2.7.0
contaocontao_cms2.7.1
contaocontao_cms2.7.2
contaocontao_cms2.7.3
contaocontao_cms2.7.4
contaocontao_cms2.7.5
contaocontao_cms2.7.6
contaocontao_cms2.7.7
contaocontao_cms2.8.0
contaocontao_cms2.8.1
contaocontao_cms2.8.2
contaocontao_cms2.8.3
contaocontao_cms2.8.4
contaocontao_cms2.9.0
contaocontao_cms2.9.1
contaocontao_cms2.9.2
contaocontao_cms2.9.3
contaocontao_cms2.9.4
contaocontao_cms2.9.5
contaocontao_cms2.10.
contaocontao_cms2.10.0
contaocontao_cms2.10.1
contaocontao_cms2.10.2
contaocontao_cms2.10.3
contaocontao_cms2.10.4

References

CWEs

CWE-352

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.