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CVE-2026-55744 - Cotonti CSRF in PFS allows forced arbitrary file upload

CVE ID :CVE-2026-55744
Published : June 18, 2026, 6:06 a.m. | 5 hours, 32 minutes ago
Description :Cotonti 1.0.0 (master branch, commit f43f1fc3) is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in the Personal File Storage (PFS) module. In modules/pfs/inc/pfs.main.php, the file upload action ('a=upload') processes uploaded files without calling cot_check_xg() to validate the anti-CSRF token, even though sibling actions such as 'delete' (line 272) do. A remote attacker who lures an authenticated user into visiting a malicious page can force the browser to submit a forged multipart request that uploads arbitrary files into the victim's PFS storage.
Severity: 8.6 | HIGH
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