CVE-2021-21265

October CMS vulnerable to Potential Host Header Poisoning on misconfigured servers

Published Mar 10, 2021 CVSS 3.1 · 6.8 Medium EPSS 1.7% KEV · Not listed
Description
October is a free, open-source, self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework. In October before version 1.1.2, when running on poorly configured servers (i.e. the server routes any request, regardless of the HOST header to an October CMS instance) the potential exists for Host Header Poisoning attacks to succeed. This has been addressed in version 1.1.2 by adding a feature to allow a set of trusted hosts to be specified in the application. As a workaround one may set the configuration setting cms.linkPolicy to force.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-0727 October is a free, open-source, self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework. In October before version 1.1.2, when running on poorly configured servers (i.e. the server routes any request, regardless of the HOST header to an October CMS instance) the potential exists for Host Header Poisoning attacks to succeed. This has been addressed in version 1.1.2 by adding a feature to allow a set of trusted hosts to be specified in the application. As a workaround one may set the configuration setting cms.linkPolicy to force.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-xhfx-hgmf-v6vp October CMS vulnerable to Potential Host Header Poisoning on misconfigured servers
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Title Potential Host Header Poisoning on misconfigured servers October CMS vulnerable to Potential Host Header Poisoning on misconfigured servers
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
May 29, 2025, 11:27 PM
Reserved
Dec 22, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Mar 10, 2021, 10:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:35 AM