CVE-2016-6521: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

January 23, 2017 (updated January 26, 2017)

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Grails console (aka Grails Debug Console and Grails Web Console) allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for requests that execute arbitrary Groovy code via unspecified vectors.

References

github.com/sheehan/grails-console/issues/54
github.com/sheehan/grails-console/issues/55
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6521

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