# CVE-2018-25168: Precurio Intranet Portal 2.0 Cross-Site Request Forgery Add Admin

> Unauthenticated attackers can create administrative accounts via CSRF, leading to full system compromise.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 6 Mar 2026
- **Updated:** 9 Mar 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-r2h3-j8v9-wx8v

## What is CVE-2018-25168?

CVE-2018-25168 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Precurio Intranet Portal, published on 6 Mar 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Precurio Intranet Portal 2.0 contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to create administrative user accounts by submitting crafted POST requests. Attackers can forge requests to the /public/admin/user/submitnew endpoint with user creation parameters to add new admin accounts without requiring CSRF tokens or user interaction.

Weakness: CWE-434 (Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-25168?


## How do I fix CVE-2018-25168?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-25168 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2018-25168 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2018-25168 exists.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2018-25168 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2018-25168 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Precurio Intranet Portal, published on 6 Mar 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2018-25168 exists.

Affected product: Precurio Intranet Portal. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-25168/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-25168/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-25168
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-25168
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-25168

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-25168/
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