Skip to content
Heist/ feed
Back to feed
Medium

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) allows creating admin account with POST request

Type: advisorySources: OSV

PwnDoc is a penetration test report generator. There is no CSRF protection in pwndoc, allowing attackers to send requests on a logged-in user's behalf. This includes GET and POST requests due to the missing SameSite= attribute on cookies and the ability to refresh cookies. Commit 14acb704891245bf1703ce6296d62112e85aa995 patches the issue.

Products
Not specified
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
Not specified
CVEs
CVE-2025-23044
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
7 Nov 2026, 02:22 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) allows creating admin account with POST request

core-osv · Original source

Published 20 Jan 2025, 15:43 UTC

PwnDoc is a penetration test report generator. There is no CSRF protection in pwndoc, allowing attackers to send requests on a logged-in user's behalf. This includes GET and POST requests due to the missing SameSite= attribute on cookies and the ability to refresh cookies. Commit 14acb704891245bf1703ce6296d62112e85aa995 patches the issue.

osv:CVE-2025-23044
Complete source record
{
  "id": "ac99b7626f9908005f9417bb4432255fa5ac66b46d80f4246c3956cc8c1d03ea",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-23044",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) allows creating admin account with POST request",
    "summary": "PwnDoc is a penetration test report generator. There is no CSRF protection in pwndoc, allowing attackers to send requests on a logged-in user's behalf. This includes GET and POST requests due to the missing SameSite= attribute on cookies and the ability to refresh cookies. Commit 14acb704891245bf1703ce6296d62112e85aa995 patches the issue.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2025-23044",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2025-23044",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2025-23044",
        "GHSA-9v2v-jxvw-52rq"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/pwndoc/pwndoc",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "d8bca2143a4b0d2460deff95b2d880ee640f17fb"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "14acb704891245bf1703ce6296d62112e85aa995"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:pwndoc_project:pwndoc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "0.9.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "fixed": "14acb704891245bf1703ce6296d62112e85aa995"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v0.5.3",
            "v0.5.2",
            "v0.5.1",
            "v0.4.0",
            "v0.5.0",
            "v0.3.0",
            "v0.2.0",
            "v0.1.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-23044.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:49.105819039Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/23xxx/CVE-2025-23044.json",
        "https://github.com/pwndoc/pwndoc/security/advisories/GHSA-9v2v-jxvw-52rq",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-23044",
        "https://github.com/pwndoc/pwndoc/commit/14acb704891245bf1703ce6296d62112e85aa995"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cwe_ids": [
          "CWE-352"
        ],
        "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/23xxx/CVE-2025-23044.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2025-23044",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 517325,
  "published_at": "2025-01-20T15:43:23.882+00:00"
}