Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate as site-scoped channel admin
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ExploitSubmit foreign site's channel ID to Channels API
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ImpactRead and overwrite other site's channel data
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Object-level authorization, IDOR prevention
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| Exploitation Conditions | Requires an authenticated SSCMS administrator account that is site-scoped and holds the Channels permission on at least one site, plus a deployment running in multi-site/multi-tenant mode (the only configuration where foreign channel IDs exist to target). Exploitation is performed against the ChannelsController Get and Update admin APIs by supplying another site's channel ID. Limiting factors: privileged account access is mandatory (PR:H), so this is primarily an insider or compromised-tenant-admin threat; single-site installations have no cross-site channels to abuse and are effectively unaffected; impact is bounded to channel metadata (names, file paths, templates, link URLs, custom fields) with no availability impact. |
| Impact | This is a genuine but moderate-risk multi-tenant authorization flaw (CWE-639, IDOR), not a drop-everything emergency. The supplied CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N, score 5.1) is internally consistent with the description: it requires an already-privileged, authenticated site-scoped administrator (PR:H), works remotely over the network with low complexity and no user interaction, and yields only low confidentiality and low integrity impact with no availability impact. No EPSS score, no CISA KEV entry, and no explicitly flagged public exploit were provided, so exploitation status is 'no public exploit identified at time of analysis' - though a detailed third-party technical writeup exists on hackmd that could materially lower the barrier to reproduction. The signals are mutually reinforcing rather than conflicting: the low CVSS, the privilege prerequisite (a trusted delegated admin), and the absence of KEV/POC all point to a lower-urgency, insider-or-compromised-tenant threat rather than mass internet exploitation. The main caveat is that risk is entirely conditional on running a genuine multi-site/multi-tenant SSCMS deployment; in single-site installs there is effectively no exposure. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A legitimate (or attacker-controlled) administrator scoped to Site A with Channels permission logs into the SSCMS admin panel and calls the ChannelsController Get/Update APIs while substituting a channel ID belonging to Site B. Because the controller trusts the user-supplied channel ID without verifying it belongs to the caller's site, the attacker reads and overwrites Site B's channel names, file paths, templates, link URLs, and custom fields. A public technical writeup describing the cross-site IDOR exists, but no packaged exploit was flagged in the provided data. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 16, 2026
Site-scoped authorization bypass in SiteServer SSCMS through 7.4.0 allows an authenticated administrator who holds Channels permission on one site to read and overwrite another site's channel records by supplying a foreign channel ID to the ChannelsController Get and Update APIs. This CWE-639 IDOR breaks multi-site isolation for channel metadata such as names, file paths, templates, link URLs, and custom fields, but requires privileged tenant-admin access and a multi-site deployment; single-site installations and users without Channels permission are effectively unaffected. The provided CVSS 5.1 (CVSS 4.0) and the independent assessed CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N both indicate a moderate, privilege-gated issue, and no public exploit identified at time of analysis.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis; monitor the SiteServer SSCMS project and the VulnCheck advisory at https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/siteserver-sscms-through-7.4.0-cross-site-authorization-bypass-via-channels-api for a fixed release after 7.4.0. Until then, restrict the Channels permission to fully trusted administrators, because the vulnerability requires an authenticated site-scoped admin with that permission and cannot be exploited by unauthenticated users. For multi-site deployments, the most direct compensating control is to add or enforce server-side authorization in the ChannelsController Get and Update paths so that any supplied channel ID must belong to the caller's site; this custom code change requires testing to avoid breaking legitimate cross-site super-admin workflows. If that is not possible, temporarily disable or tightly limit the affected Channels admin APIs for non-super-admin tenant users, accepting reduced tenant self-management, and review logs for channel reads or updates that reference IDs outside the administrator's site. Single-site installations can deprioritize emergency action, but they should still upgrade when a patched version is published.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The flaw is CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key, an IDOR class in which the ChannelsController fails to scope the channel ID parameter to the caller's site. The affected component is SiteServer SSCMS (CPE cpe:2.3:a:siteserver:sscms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*), and the advisory code references point to ChannelsController.Update.cs and ChannelsController.Get.cs in the SSCMS v7.2.1 tree, indicating the Get and Update admin actions accept a channel ID without validating that it belongs to the administrator's site. The assessed CVSS vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N matches the exploitation conditions: network-reachable admin APIs, low complexity, mandatory high-privilege authenticated access, no user interaction, and limited confidentiality/integrity impact with no availability impact. Multi-site/multi-tenant deployments are the necessary precondition because foreign channel IDs only exist when multiple sites are managed in one SSCMS instance.
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Requires a privileged site-scoped admin account (PR:H) over the network with no interaction; same-component access yields limited read/write of channel metadata, so C:L/I:L and A:N, S:U.
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CVSS VectorVendor: VulnCheck
DescriptionCVE.org
SiteServer SSCMS through 7.4.0 contains an authorization bypass vulnerability in ChannelsController that allows site-scoped administrators to access other sites' channels by supplying foreign channel IDs. Attackers with Channels permission on one site can read and overwrite another site's channel names, file paths, templates, link URLs, and custom fields, breaking multi-site isolation.
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EUVD-2026-103080
GHSA-f64v-vg62-99f4
NVD
CVE.org
EPSS
Exploit-DB