CVE-2026-40928 PUBLISHED

AVideo: Missing CSRF Protection on State-Changing JSON Endpoints Enables Forced Comment Creation, Vote Manipulation, and Category Asset Deletion

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 15.04.2026 Published: 21.04.2026 Updated: 21.04.2026

WWBN AVideo is an open source video platform. In versions 29.0 and prior, multiple AVideo JSON endpoints under objects/ accept state-changing requests via $_REQUEST/$_GET and persist changes tied to the caller's session user, without any anti-CSRF token, origin check, or referer check. A malicious page visited by a logged-in victim can silently cast/flip the victim's like/dislike on any comment (objects/comments_like.json.php), post a comment authored by the victim on any video, with attacker-chosen text (objects/commentAddNew.json.php), and/or delete assets from any category (objects/categoryDeleteAssets.json.php) when the victim has category management rights. Each endpoint is reachable from a browser via a simple <img src="…"> tag or form submission, so exploitation only requires the victim to load an attacker-controlled HTML resource. Commit 7aaad601bd9cd7b993ba0ee1b1bea6c32ee7b77c contains a fix.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CVSS Score: 5.4

Product Status

Vendor WWBN
Product AVideo
Versions
  • Version <= 29.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) CWE