CVE-2017-8827: Genixcms

Critical severity, CVSS 9.1. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

forgotpassword.php in GeniXCMS 1.0.2 lacks a rate limit, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (login inability) or possibly conduct Arbitrary User Password Reset attacks via a series of requests.

Affected products

• Genixcms Genixcms: version 1.0.2 only

Published 2017-05-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.