CVE-2011-0642 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in news/admin.php in N-13 News 3.4, 3.7, and 4.0 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that create new users via the options action. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Published: 2011-01-25

Score: 4.3 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

Analysis and contextual insights are available on OpenCVE Cloud.

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:network-13:n-13_news:3.4:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:network-13:n-13_news:3.7:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:network-13:n-13_news:4.0:::::::*

No data.

No data available yet.

Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

Additional remediation guidance may be available on OpenCVE Cloud.

Tracking

Sign in to view the affected projects.

Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2011-0660	Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in news/admin.php in N-13 News 3.4, 3.7, and 4.0 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that create new users via the options action. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00212.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://osvdb.org/70593
http://secunia.com/advisories/42959
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16013
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64824

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Network-13 N-13 News

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2011-01-25T18:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T21:58:26.081Z

Reserved: 2011-01-25T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2011-0642

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2011-01-25T19:00:06.217

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2011-0642

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-352

{"containers": {"cna": {"affected": [{"product": "n/a", "vendor": "n/a", "versions": [{"status": "affected", "version": "n/a"}]}], "datePublic": "2011-01-18T00:00:00.000Z", "descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "value": "Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in news/admin.php in N-13 News 3.4, 3.7, and 4.0 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that create new users via the options action. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information."}], "problemTypes": [{"descriptions": [{"description": "n/a", "lang": "en", "type": "text"}]}], "providerMetadata": {"dateUpdated": "2017-08-16T14:57:01.000Z", "orgId": "8254265b-2729-46b6-b9e3-3dfca2d5bfca", "shortName": "mitre"}, "references": [{"name": "70593", "tags": ["vdb-entry", "x_refsource_OSVDB"], "url": "http://osvdb.org/70593"}, {"name": "16013", "tags": ["exploit", "x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB"], "url": "http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16013"}, {"name": "42959", "tags": ["third-party-advisory", "x_refsource_SECUNIA"], "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/42959"}, {"name": "n13news-admin-csrf(64824)", "tags": ["vdb-entry", "x_refsource_XF"], "url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64824"}], "x_legacyV4Record": {"CVE_data_meta": {"ASSIGNER": "cve@mitre.org", "ID": "CVE-2011-0642", "STATE": "PUBLIC"}, "affects": {"vendor": {"vendor_data": [{"product": {"product_data": [{"product_name": "n/a", "version": {"version_data": [{"version_value": "n/a"}]}}]}, "vendor_name": "n/a"}]}}, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": {"description_data": [{"lang": "eng", "value": "Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in news/admin.php in N-13 News 3.4, 3.7, and 4.0 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that create new users via the options action. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information."}]}, "problemtype": {"problemtype_data": [{"description": [{"lang": "eng", "value": "n/a"}]}]}, "references": {"reference_data": [{"name": "70593", "refsource": "OSVDB", "url": "http://osvdb.org/70593"}, {"name": "16013", "refsource": "EXPLOIT-DB", "url": "http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16013"}, {"name": "42959", "refsource": "SECUNIA", "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/42959"}, {"name": "n13news-admin-csrf(64824)", "refsource": "XF", "url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64824"}]}}}, "adp": [{"providerMetadata": {"orgId": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108", "shortName": "CVE", "dateUpdated": "2024-08-06T21:58:26.081Z"}, "title": "CVE Program Container", "references": [{"name": "70593", "tags": ["vdb-entry", "x_refsource_OSVDB", "x_transferred"], "url": "http://osvdb.org/70593"}, {"name": "16013", "tags": ["exploit", "x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB", "x_transferred"], "url": "http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16013"}, {"name": "42959", "tags": ["third-party-advisory", "x_refsource_SECUNIA", "x_transferred"], "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/42959"}, {"name": "n13news-admin-csrf(64824)", "tags": ["vdb-entry", "x_refsource_XF", "x_transferred"], "url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64824"}]}]}, "cveMetadata": {"assignerOrgId": "8254265b-2729-46b6-b9e3-3dfca2d5bfca", "assignerShortName": "mitre", "cveId": "CVE-2011-0642", "datePublished": "2011-01-25T18:00:00.000Z", "dateReserved": "2011-01-25T00:00:00.000Z", "dateUpdated": "2024-08-06T21:58:26.081Z", "state": "PUBLISHED"}, "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.1"}

{"configurations": [{"nodes": [{"cpeMatch": [{"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:network-13:n-13_news:3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "matchCriteriaId": "8BEAF518-B627-4620-AE69-73F2D0F5F885", "vulnerable": true}, {"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:network-13:n-13_news:3.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "matchCriteriaId": "1BD49A79-ED1D-45CE-90E8-50B8A21175F0", "vulnerable": true}, {"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:network-13:n-13_news:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "matchCriteriaId": "18CCF67A-9156-4D67-AA74-BBFC1A287324", "vulnerable": true}], "negate": false, "operator": "OR"}]}], "cveTags": [], "descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "value": "Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in news/admin.php in N-13 News 3.4, 3.7, and 4.0 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that create new users via the options action. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information."}, {"lang": "es", "value": "Vulnerabilidad de falsificaci\u00f3n de petici\u00f3n en sitios cruzados (CSRF) en news/admin.php para N-13 News v3.4, v3.7, y v4.0, permite a atacantes remotos secuestrar la autenticaci\u00f3n de los administradores en las peticiones que crean nuevos usuarios a trav\u00e9s de la acci\u00f3n de las opciones. NOTA:algunos de estos detalles han sido obtenidos de informaci\u00f3n de terceros."}], "id": "CVE-2011-0642", "lastModified": "2026-04-29T01:13:23.040", "metrics": {"cvssMetricV2": [{"acInsufInfo": false, "baseSeverity": "MEDIUM", "cvssData": {"accessComplexity": "MEDIUM", "accessVector": "NETWORK", "authentication": "NONE", "availabilityImpact": "NONE", "baseScore": 4.3, "confidentialityImpact": "NONE", "integrityImpact": "PARTIAL", "vectorString": "AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N", "version": "2.0"}, "exploitabilityScore": 8.6, "impactScore": 2.9, "obtainAllPrivilege": false, "obtainOtherPrivilege": false, "obtainUserPrivilege": false, "source": "nvd@nist.gov", "type": "Primary", "userInteractionRequired": true}]}, "published": "2011-01-25T19:00:06.217", "references": [{"source": "cve@mitre.org", "url": "http://osvdb.org/70593"}, {"source": "cve@mitre.org", "tags": ["Vendor Advisory"], "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/42959"}, {"source": "cve@mitre.org", "tags": ["Exploit"], "url": "http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16013"}, {"source": "cve@mitre.org", "url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64824"}, {"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108", "url": "http://osvdb.org/70593"}, {"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108", "tags": ["Vendor Advisory"], "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/42959"}, {"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108", "tags": ["Exploit"], "url": "http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16013"}, {"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108", "url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64824"}], "sourceIdentifier": "cve@mitre.org", "vulnStatus": "Modified", "weaknesses": [{"description": [{"lang": "en", "value": "CWE-352"}], "source": "nvd@nist.gov", "type": "Primary"}]}