CVE-2023-7038automad User Creation cross-site request forgery
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 0.39%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 66% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
Description
A vulnerability was found in automad up to 1.10.9. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file /dashboard?controller=UserCollection::createUser of the component User Creation Handler. The manipulation leads to cross-site request forgery. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-248687. NOTE: The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
Public exploit
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Timeline
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Published
- 8 months later
· 8 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| VulDBCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| VulDBCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| VulDBCNA (assigner) | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.39% · top 66% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
automad
- affected 1.10.0
- affected 1.10.1
- affected 1.10.2
- affected 1.10.3
- affected 1.10.4
- affected 1.10.5
- affected 1.10.6
- affected 1.10.7
- affected 1.10.8
- affected 1.10.9
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistautomad/automadGHSA-4j8w-p6hv-3qxc (opens in a new tab)
References
References3
- https://vuldb.com/?id.248687 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_transferred
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.248687 (opens in a new tab)signaturepermissions-requiredx_transferred
- https://github.com/screetsec/VDD/tree/main/Automad%20CMS/Cross-Site%20Request%20Forgery%20(CSRF) (opens in a new tab)exploitx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-3102 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-4j8w-p6hv-3qxc (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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