CVE-2025-25967
📋 TL;DR
Acora CMS version 10.1.1 has a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability that allows attackers to trick authenticated users into performing unauthorized actions like account deletion or user creation. This affects all users with administrative or authenticated access to vulnerable Acora CMS installations.
💻 Affected Systems
- Acora CMS
📦 What is this software?
⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact
Worst Case
Complete compromise of the CMS instance including deletion of all accounts, creation of attacker-controlled administrator accounts, and potential data destruction.
Likely Case
Unauthorized account creation or privilege escalation leading to attacker persistence and data exfiltration.
If Mitigated
Limited impact with proper CSRF protections and user awareness training.
🎯 Exploit Status
Exploitation requires the victim to be authenticated and visit a malicious page while logged into Acora CMS.
🛠️ Fix & Mitigation
✅ Official Fix
Patch Version: Not available
Vendor Advisory: Not available
Restart Required: No
Instructions:
No official patch available. Consider upgrading to a newer version if available or implementing workarounds.
🔧 Temporary Workarounds
Implement CSRF Tokens
allAdd CSRF protection tokens to all state-changing forms and API endpoints
Manual code modification required - add CSRF tokens to forms and validate on server-side
SameSite Cookie Attribute
allSet SameSite=Strict or SameSite=Lax attributes on session cookies
Set-Cookie: session=value; SameSite=Strict; Secure; HttpOnly
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Implement web application firewall (WAF) rules to detect and block CSRF patterns
- Require re-authentication for sensitive actions and implement additional confirmation steps
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
Check if Acora CMS version is 10.1.1 and forms lack CSRF tokensCheck Version:
Check CMS admin panel or configuration files for version informationVerify Fix Applied:
Verify that all forms include CSRF tokens and they are properly validated server-side📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- Multiple failed authentication attempts followed by successful state-changing requests
- Unusual user creation or deletion events
Network Indicators:
- Requests to sensitive endpoints without Referer headers or with external Referers
SIEM Query:
source="acora_cms" AND (event="user_created" OR event="user_deleted" OR event="privilege_change") AND referer NOT CONTAINS "yourdomain.com"