Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
CVE-2019-13370 describes a CSRF flaw in Ignited CMS where an authenticated administrator could be tricked into adding another administrator. The source bundle does not provide CVSS, a fixed version, or confirmed exploitation. Business risk is highest for legacy Ignited CMS deployments with reachable admin panels and active administrator sessions.
Executive priority
Treat as a priority legacy-platform risk if Ignited CMS is present. The potential impact is administrator creation, but evidence is sparse and no active exploitation is cited. Prioritize inventory, exposure reduction, and vendor or fork validation before emergency action.
Technical view
The reported issue is in index.php/admin/permissions in Ignited CMS through 2017-02-19. The weakness allows cross-site request forgery to add an administrator, implying missing or ineffective request authenticity checks on that administrative action. Public evidence is limited to the CVE record and a GitHub issue reference.
Likely exposure
Exposure appears limited to Ignited CMS deployments using code through 2017-02-19, especially where the admin permissions route is reachable by authenticated administrators. The source bundle lists affected vendor/product fields as n/a, so validate against actual deployed code rather than relying on CPE matching.
Exploitation context
No CISA KEV listing is provided, and the supplied sources do not claim active exploitation. A CSRF scenario generally depends on an authenticated administrator being induced to trigger an unwanted request, but the bundle does not provide exploit details or real-world activity evidence.
Researcher notes
The CVE record is terse and lacks CVSS, CWE mapping, CPEs, and remediation detail. The most important research task is confirming the vulnerable code path, the version boundary, and whether the referenced GitHub issue identifies a specific patch or maintained branch.
Mitigation direction
- Check Ignited CMS project guidance or issue history for an official fix.
- Identify and retire unsupported Ignited CMS deployments where feasible.
- Restrict admin interface access to trusted networks while assessing exposure.
- Review maintained forks for CSRF protection on administrator creation actions.
Validation and detection
- Inventory any Ignited CMS deployments and code provenance.
- Confirm whether deployed code is through 2017-02-19.
- Review index.php/admin/permissions for CSRF token validation on admin creation.
- Check admin user creation logs for unexpected accounts.
- Verify admin routes are not broadly reachable from untrusted networks.
Public sources used
Generated from the cited source records. This long-tail analysis has not been individually reviewed by a named human.
Conservative CVE-to-ATT&CK context
These mappings and lookup hints may be relevant to the vulnerability behavior, CWE, affected product, or exposure path. Glexia-inferred context is not an official MITRE, ATT&CK, CWE, or CVE Program mapping.
ATT&CK lookup starting points
Use these exact CWE pages and searches to review the Glexia ATT&CK library from this CVE's weakness and description context.
CVE-2019-13370 mapping review
Open the CVE-to-ATT&CK bridge for reviewed, inferred, or future official mappings tied to this CVE.
Open ATT&CK lookup- Severity
- Unknown
- CVSS
- Not scored
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
CNA and ADP enrichment extracted from CVE v5
These fields come from the CVE record and ADP containers, not from Glexia's Take. They preserve time-varying source decisions such as CISA SSVC, KEV status, CVSS metrics, and provider references.
CVSS and timeline data
No CVSS vectors or timeline events were available in the normalized CVE source material.
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://github.com/ignitedcms/ignitedcms/issues/7CVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
Products and packages named in the record
CWE details
CWE links open Glexia weakness intelligence pages with official CWE context, developer remediation guidance, and related CVE mappings.