VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-6047

medium
Published 2012-11-27 · 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

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in X7 Chat 2.0.5.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that add a user to an arbitrary group via the users page in an adminpanel action to index.php.

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.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-18850 webapps php verified
DennSpec · 2012-05-09

X7 Chat 2.0.5.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (Add Admin)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
x7_groupx7_chat{"endIncluding":"2.0.5.1"}
x7_groupx7_chat1.0.0b
x7_groupx7_chat1.1.1b
x7_groupx7_chat1.1.2b
x7_groupx7_chat1.2.0b
x7_groupx7_chat1.3.0b
x7_groupx7_chat1.3.1b
x7_groupx7_chat1.3.2b
x7_groupx7_chat1.3.3b
x7_groupx7_chat1.3.4b
x7_groupx7_chat1.3.5b
x7_groupx7_chat1.3.6
x7_groupx7_chat2.0.0
x7_groupx7_chat2.0.2
x7_groupx7_chat2.0.3
x7_groupx7_chat2.0.4.4

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.