CVE-2021-29487: Improper Authentication

August 26, 2021 (updated August 2, 2022)

octobercms in a CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework. There exists a vulnerability that is exploitable by unauthenticated users via a specially crafted request. This only affects frontend users and the attacker must obtain a Laravel secret key for cookie encryption and signing in order to exploit this vulnerability.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-29487

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