{"id":"CVE-2019-15953","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2019-15953","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T22:21:35.002Z","title":"This leads to vertical and horizontal privilege escalation.","description":"An issue was discovered in Total.js CMS 12.0.0. An authenticated user with limited privileges can get access to a resource that they do not own by calling the associated API. The product correctly manages privileges only for the front-end resource path, not for API requests. This leads to vertical and horizontal privilege escalation.","published":"2019-09-05T19:16:32.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:21:25.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":8.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-862"],"affected":["totaljs/total.js cms"],"epss":{"score":0.01546,"percentile":0.74864,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.55%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/beerpwn/CVE/blob/master/Totaljs_disclosure_report/report_final.pdf","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Sep/6","tags":["Exploit","Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/beerpwn/CVE/blob/master/Totaljs_disclosure_report/report_final.pdf","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Sep/6","tags":["Exploit","Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15953","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."}