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CVE-2021-45326

Status: ModifiedHigh (8.8)—

Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability exists in Gitea before 1.5.2 via API routes.This can be dangerous especially with state altering POST requests.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

Gitea — Gitea

CWEs

References

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