Anchor CMS through 0.12.7 Privilege Escalation via Missing Authorization on Admin User-Management Endpoints

Anchor CMS through 0.12.7 fails to enforce role-based access control in admin user-management endpoints, allowing any authenticated low-privilege user to create administrator accounts or modify existing ones. Attackers with editor or user roles can POST directly to admin/users/add or admin/users/edit endpoints to create new administrator accounts or change the existing administrator's password, gaining full administrative access.

A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Anchor CMS v0.12.7 allows attackers to inject malicious JavaScript via the page description field in the page creation interface (/admin/pages/add).

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in anchor-cms before 0.9-dev.

models/comment.php in Anchor CMS 0.9.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary headers into mail messages via a crafted Host: header.

system/session/drivers/cookie.php in Anchor CMS 0.9.x allows remote attackers to conduct PHP object injection attacks and execute arbitrary PHP code via a crafted serialized object in a cookie.

Anchor CMS v0.12.7 was discovered to contain a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) via /anchor/admin/categories/delete/2.

Anchor CMS v0.12.7 was discovered to contain a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) via /anchor/admin/users/delete/2.

Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in Anchor CMS v.0.12.7 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via a crafted .pdf file.

Anchor CMS v0.12.7 was discovered to contain a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) via the component anchor/routes/posts.php. This vulnerability allows attackers to arbitrarily delete posts.

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Create Post function of Anchor CMS v0.12.7 allows attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts or HTML.

Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability exits in Anchor CMS <=0.12.7 in posts.php. Attackers can use the posts column to upload the title and content containing malicious code to achieve the purpose of obtaining the administrator cookie, thereby achieving other malicious operations.

A CSRF vulnerability exists in Anchor CMS 0.12.7 anchor/views/users/edit.php that can change the Delete admin users.