CVE-2022-47132
Published: 03 February 2023
Summary
CVE-2022-47132 is a high-severity CSRF (CWE-352) vulnerability in Creativeitem Academy Lms. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 12.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
A Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-47132 affects Academy LMS versions prior to 5.10. The flaw, assigned CWE-352 and carrying a CVSS v3.1 score of 8.8, permits unauthenticated attackers to add arbitrary administrator accounts by submitting forged requests that abuse the lack of CSRF protections in the user-management workflow.
An attacker can exploit the issue by hosting a malicious page or link that an authenticated administrator visits, causing the application to create a new privileged account under the attacker's control. Successful exploitation grants full administrative access, enabling further actions such as content manipulation or privilege escalation within the LMS instance.
Public references include a technical write-up at xpsec.co detailing the Academy LMS 5.10 admin-addition vector along with general CSRF resources from PortSwigger; the version constraint implies that upgrading to 5.10 or later addresses the missing protections.
EPSS for the CVE reached a peak of 0.0604 on 2025-12-11 before receding to the current value of 0.0321.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-49907
Vulnerability details
A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in Academy LMS before v5.10 allows attackers to arbitrarily add Administrator users.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Awareness training educates users on avoiding untrusted links and actions that can be exploited via CSRF.
Requiring user re-entry of credentials for sensitive actions prevents automated forgery of requests without active user participation.
Security testing regimens explicitly include checks for missing or ineffective anti-CSRF protections in web applications.
Detects anomalous request patterns consistent with cross-site request forgery.