CVE-2024-56203
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedCross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in gholme4 Wayne Audio Player wayne-audio-player allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects Wayne Audio Player: from n/a through <= 1.0.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceA Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Wayne Audio Player allows attackers to trick authenticated users into performing unintended actions, leading to privilege escalation. The lack of anti-CSRF protections enables malicious requests to be forged on behalf of victims with higher privileges.
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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify Wayne Audio Player installation and versionLocate the Wayne Audio Player application in your environment and determine its installed version number. Consult the application's about page, installed packages, or running services to confirm the exact version.Affected if The installed version lacks the CVE-2024-56203 patch and is older than the fixed version.
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Verify state-changing operations include anti-CSRF tokensInspect the application's source code or network requests when performing actions like user management, settings changes, or privilege modifications. Examine whether each state-changing request includes a unique, unpredictable token that the server validates.Affected if State-changing operations can be performed without a valid anti-CSRF token, leaving them vulnerable to forged requests.
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Confirm Origin and Referer header validationTest the application's behavior by sending requests with mismatched or missing Origin/Referer headers. Check the server-side code or configuration to determine if these headers are validated before processing sensitive operations.Affected if The application accepts requests without validating that they originate from the legitimate site.
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Inspect cookie SameSite attribute configurationExamine the session cookies set by Wayne Audio Player. Use browser developer tools or intercept HTTP responses to check the Set-Cookie headers for the SameSite attribute.Affected if Cookies are missing the SameSite=Strict or SameSite=Lax attribute, allowing cross-site cookie transmission.
A user is affected if Wayne Audio Player is running without anti-CSRF token protection on state-changing operations, without Origin/Referer header validation, and without proper SameSite cookie attributes.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataImplement anti-CSRF tokens for all state-changing operations and validate Origin/Referer headers. Additionally, configure cookies with SameSite=Strict or SameSite=Lax to prevent cross-site request forgery.
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- Review / QA2.0 h
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