Cross-Site Request Forgery in CakePHP

published 2020-06-30 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-j33j-fg2g-mcv2 , EUVD-2022-1061

cvss: 4.3; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.4%; EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 39%
public exploits: 0; none known

CakePHP before 4.0.6 mishandles CSRF token generation. This might be remotely exploitable in conjunction with XSS.

Patch / fix

fixed in 2

packagist cakephp/cakephp 3.10.3, 4.0.6
cakefoundation cakephp 4.0.6

Exploit prediction

0.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 39% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	4.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD	2.0	4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub	3.1	4.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
packagist	cakephp/cakephp	>=4.0.0, <4.0.6 <3.10.3	4.0.6 3.10.3

Classification

Weakness

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery

References

bakery.cakephp.org /2020/04/18/cakephp_406_released.html
web, release-notes, vendor-advisory
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15400
advisory
bakery.cakephp.org /2022/05/08/cakephp_3103_released.html
web

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

Summary