Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been discovered in Umbraco CMS, which can be exploited by malicious users to gain escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
Umbraco CMS Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA34209
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/34209/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been discovered in Umbraco CMS, which can be
exploited by malicious users to gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to the application not properly
restricting access to certain administrative pages. This can be
exploited to modify e.g. the settings and passwords of arbitrary
users.
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 3. Other versions may also
be affected.
SOLUTION:
Grant access to trusted users only.
Upgrade to version 4.0.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Pratiksha Doshi
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