# CVE-2025-23044: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) allows creating admin account with POST request

- Severity: CVSS 6.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-01-20 · Updated: 2025-02-12

## Affected

- pwndoc: version range not reported

## Description

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.

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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/pwndoc/pwndoc/security/advisories/GHSA-9v2v-jxvw-52rq
- https://github.com/pwndoc/pwndoc/commit/14acb704891245bf1703ce6296d62112e85aa995

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