CVE-2024-11680
Actively exploited. CVE-2024-11680 is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2024-12-03) — exploitation has been observed in the wild, and US federal agencies are required to remediate it under BOD 22-01. Treat patching as urgent.
Public exploit code is available. Proof-of-concept or working exploit code for CVE-2024-11680 is indexed in Metasploit, GitHub PoC and Nuclei. Expect opportunistic scanning and exploitation attempts — prioritize remediation.
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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Exploitation outlook
- Exploitation confirmedAlready exploited in the wild (CISA KEV) — the prediction phase is over. Patch now. Riskier than 100% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Exploit availability
Public exploit or proof-of-concept code for CVE-2024-11680 is indexed in these free datasets. Available exploit code raises real-world risk independent of the CVSS score.
- MetasploitA Metasploit Framework module targets this CVE — weaponized, point-and-click exploitation.look it up ↗
- GitHub PoCPublic proof-of-concept repositories on GitHub reference this CVE.look it up ↗
- NucleiA nuclei-templates detection/PoC template exists for this CVE.look it up ↗
Advisory coverage (1)
- criticalexploitedCVE-2024-11680: ProjectSend Improper Authentication Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2024-12-03
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