CVE-2024-11680: ProjectSend Improper Authentication Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)

Description

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.

Required action (CISA)

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Notes

https://github.com/projectsend/projectsend/commit/193367d937b1a59ed5b68dd4e60bd53317473744 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-11680

Weakness behind it

CISA records this vulnerability as an instance of CWE-287. From there the chain continues into CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques, all inside this corpus.

References

• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-11680
• KEV catalog: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog