CVE-2011-0642

N-13 News 3.4, 3.7, 4.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via User Creation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2011-0642. PoCs published by anT!-Tr0J4n.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This is a CSRF exploit for N-13 News 3.4 that adds a new admin account by submitting a crafted POST request to the vulnerable endpoint. The exploit leverages the lack of CSRF protection in the admin account creation functionality.

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in news/admin.php in N-13 News 3.4, 3.7, and 4.0 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that create new users via the options action. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC
by anT!-Tr0J4n · htmlwebappsphp
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16013

This is a CSRF exploit for N-13 News 3.4 that adds a new admin account by submitting a crafted POST request to the vulnerable endpoint. The exploit leverages the lack of CSRF protection in the admin account creation functionality.

Classification
Working Poc 90%
Attack Type
Auth Bypass
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: N-13 News 3.4
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Victim must be authenticated as an admin and visit the malicious page
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://osvdb.org/70593
Exploit exploit x_refsource_exploit-db
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16013
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/42959
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64824

Scores

EPSS 0.0086
EPSS Percentile 53.7%

Details

CWE
CWE-352
Status published
Products (3)
network-13/n-13_news 3.4
network-13/n-13_news 3.7
network-13/n-13_news 4.0
Published Jan 25, 2011
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026