Privilege escalation via form generator
### Impact It is possible for untrusted users to gain administrator rights with the form generator. Installations are only affected if there are untrusted back end users with access to the form generator. ### Patches Update to Contao 4.4.56, 4.9.18 or 4.11.7. ### Workarounds Disable the form generator or disable the login for untrusted back end users. ### References https://contao.org/en/security-advisories/privilege-escalation-with-the-form-generator ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, open an issue in [contao/contao](https://github.com/contao/contao/issues/new/choose).
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2021-37627US | high7.2 | — | ||
Contao is an open source CMS that allows creation of websites and scalable web applications. In affected versions it is possible to gain privileged rights in the Contao back end. I… | ||||
references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://contao.org/en/security-advisories/privilege-escalation-with-the-form-generator.htmlWEB
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/contao/contao/CVE-2021-37627.yamlWEB
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/contao/core-bundle/CVE-2021-37627.yamlWEB
- https://github.com/contao/contaoPACKAGE
- https://github.com/contao/contao/security/advisories/GHSA-hq5m-mqmx-fw6mWEB
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-37627ADVISORY
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