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Medium · 4.5 Public exploit CVE-2016-4808 EUVD-2022-3984GHSA-gp69-xcm6-ffqjPYSEC-2026-1061

Web2py Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerability

Published Jan 11, 2017 · Updated Aug 6, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Web2py versions 2.14.5 and below was affected by CSRF (Cross Site Request Forgery) vulnerability, which allows an attacker to trick a logged in user to perform some unwanted actions i.e An attacker can trick an victim to disable the installed application just by sending a URL to victim.

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

Exploit-DB 1

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI web2py < 2.14.6 2.14.6 GHSA-gp69-xcm6-ffqj

References