CVE-2016-20054

MEDIUM

Nodcms Cross Site Request Forgery via admin endpoints

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2016-20054. PoCs published by Amir.ght.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit demonstrates a CSRF vulnerability in nodcms, allowing an attacker to create a new admin user or inject XSS payloads via crafted POST requests. The PoC includes functional HTML forms targeting the vulnerable endpoints.

Description

Nodcms contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability that allows attackers to perform unauthorized administrative actions by crafting malicious forms. Attackers can trick authenticated administrators into submitting requests to admin/user_manipulate and admin/settings/generall endpoints to create users or modify application settings without explicit consent.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC
by Amir.ght · htmlwebappsphp
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40707

This exploit demonstrates a CSRF vulnerability in nodcms, allowing an attacker to create a new admin user or inject XSS payloads via crafted POST requests. The PoC includes functional HTML forms targeting the vulnerable endpoints.

Classification
Working Poc 95%
Attack Type
Xss
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: nodcms (version not specified)
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Victim must visit a malicious page hosting the CSRF form
devstral-2 · analyzed Apr 07, 2026 Full analysis →

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Exploit exploit
ExploitDB-40707
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40707

Scores

CVSS v3 4.3
EPSS 0.0002
EPSS Percentile 5.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-352 CWE-79
Status published
Products (3)
khodakhah/nodcms 0Packagist
nodcms/nodcms 1.0
nodcms/nodCMS 1.0
Published Apr 04, 2026
Tracked Since Apr 05, 2026