CVE-2024-11680: ProjectSend Improper Authentication Vulnerability
Actively exploited. At least one CVE in this advisory is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — exploitation has been observed in the wild. Treat remediation as urgent.
ProjectSend contains an improper authentication vulnerability that allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to enable unauthorized modification of the application's configuration via crafted HTTP requests to options.php. Successful exploitation allows attackers to create accounts, upload webshells, and embed malicious JavaScript.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- The vulnerability allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to modify the application's configuration and create accounts.
- Who is affected
- Deployments of ProjectSend are affected.
- Urgency
- Remediation is urgent as the vulnerability is actively exploited and classified as critical.
- Action
- Update to the latest version of ProjectSend to mitigate the vulnerability.
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Details
Original advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-11680
Exploitation outlook
EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.
- Exploitation confirmedCVE-2024-11680Already exploited in the wild (CISA KEV) — the prediction phase is over. Patch now. Riskier than 100% of all scored CVEs.
Referenced CVEs
| CVE | CSIRTS overview | External |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2024-11680 | coverage & exploitation status | NVD · CVE.org |
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