CVE-2026-55742: Cotonti: Cross-Site Request Forgery in the administration rights handler
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 cotauthaddgroup) without calling cotcheckxg() to validate the anti-CSRF token.
Published Jun 18, 2026 · Updated Jun 19, 2026
Affected packages
cotonti/cotonti
- Ecosystem
- Composer (PHP)
- Affected
- <= 1.0.0
- Fixed in
- No patched version yet
- Check
composer show cotonti/cotonti
Advisory details
From the GitHub Advisory Database (CC BY 4.0).
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.
References
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