CVE-2023-53914 (GCVE-0-2023-53914)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-17 22:44 – Updated: 2025-12-18 15:03
VLAI?
Title
UliCMS 2023.1 Authentication Bypass via Mass Assignment Vulnerability
Summary
UliCMS 2023.1 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to create admin users through mass assignment in the UserController. Attackers can send a crafted POST request to the admin index.php endpoint with specific parameters to generate an administrative account with full system access.
Severity ?
9.3 (Critical)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-639 - Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
ulicms Ulicms Affected: 2023.1
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Credits
Mirabbas Ağalarov
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