{"id":"CVE-2014-8773","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2014-8773","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T19:50:48.759Z","title":"MODX Revolution 2.x before 2.2.15 allows remote attackers to bypass the cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection mechanism by (1) omitting the CSRF token or via a (2) long string in the CSRF token parameter.","description":"MODX Revolution 2.x before 2.2.15 allows remote attackers to bypass the cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection mechanism by (1) omitting the CSRF token or via a (2) long string in the CSRF token parameter.","published":"2014-12-03T18:59:04.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:17:22.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":6.8,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"},"cwe":["CWE-352"],"affected":["modx/modx revolution"],"epss":{"score":0.01131,"percentile":0.66204,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":1,"verified":false,"firstPublished":"2014-11-05","source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[{"edbId":35159,"kind":"exploit","title":"MODx CMS 2.2.14 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Bypass / Reflected Cross-Site Scripting / Persistent Cross-Site Scripting","url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/35159","sourceUrl":"https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/php/webapps/35159.txt","file":"exploits/php/webapps/35159.txt","published":"2014-11-05","added":"2014-11-17","updated":"2014-11-17","author":"Narendra Bhati","type":"webapps","platform":"php","port":null,"verified":false,"codes":["OSVDB-114231","OSVDB-114230","OSVDB-114229","OSVDB-114228","CVE-2014-8775","CVE-2014-8774","CVE-2014-8773"],"tags":null,"aliases":null,"applicationUrl":null,"screenshotUrl":null,"referenceUrl":"http://forums.modx.com/thread/92152/critical-login-xss-csrf-revolution-2-2-1-4-and-prior"}]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB, so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 1.1%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://forums.modx.com/thread/92152/critical-login-xss-csrf-revolution-2-2-1-4-and-prior","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://hacktivity.websecgeeks.com/modx-csrf-and-xss/","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://forums.modx.com/thread/92152/critical-login-xss-csrf-revolution-2-2-1-4-and-prior","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://hacktivity.websecgeeks.com/modx-csrf-and-xss/","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8773","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}