CVE-2018-25354 Jomres CVE debrief

Who should care

Organizations running Jomres 9.11.2 on Joomla installations, particularly those in hospitality and property management sectors. Security teams responsible for Joomla ecosystem applications. Developers maintaining Jomres deployments or forked versions.

Technical summary

Jomres 9.11.2 fails to implement adequate CSRF protections on the account/index endpoint. An attacker can construct a malicious HTML form with hidden fields corresponding to account modification parameters (password, email, profile data). When an authenticated Jomres user visits the attacker's page, the form submits automatically to the vulnerable endpoint, leveraging the victim's active session cookie to execute unauthorized changes. The attack requires no user interaction beyond page load and can be delivered through standard web vectors including phishing emails, malicious advertisements, or compromised legitimate sites. The vulnerability is exploitable remotely with low complexity.

Defensive priority

medium

Recommended defensive actions

• Apply CSRF protection tokens to all state-changing endpoints in Jomres, particularly the account/index endpoint
• Validate the Origin and Referer headers for sensitive requests
• Implement SameSite cookie attributes for session management
• Review and update Jomres to a patched version if available from the vendor
• Conduct security assessment of other Jomres endpoints for similar CSRF vulnerabilities
• Enable logging and monitoring for suspicious account modification requests

Evidence notes

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery). Source references include the Joomla Extensions Directory listing for Jomres, an Exploit-DB entry, the vendor website, and a VulnCheck advisory. The CVSS 4.0 score of 5.3 reflects medium severity with integrity and availability impacts. No known exploitation in ransomware campaigns has been documented (KEV: false).

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