CVE-2026-55742 PUBLISHED

Cotonti CSRF in admin.rights.php allows privilege escalation

Assigner: TuranSec
Reserved: 17.06.2026 Published: 18.06.2026 Updated: 18.06.2026

Cotonti 1.0.0 (master branch, commit f43f1fc3) is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in the administration rights handler. In system/admin/admin.rights.php, the rights update action ('a=update') modifies group access rights (including via cot_auth_add_group) without calling cot_check_xg() to validate the anti-CSRF token. A remote attacker who lures an authenticated administrator into visiting a malicious page can force the browser to submit a forged request that grants elevated permissions to an attacker-controlled group, escalating privileges to administrator. Because Cotonti administrators can modify templates and configuration, this can be further leveraged toward remote code execution.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
CVSS Score: 9.4

Product Status

Vendor Cotonti
Product Cotonti
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 1.0.0 is affected

Credits

  • Saidakbarxon Maxsudxonov (sermikro), Innova Networks finder

References

Problem Types

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