Car Portal CMS Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

by Carol~ Moderator - 4/27/12 5:29 PM

In Reply to: VULNERABILITIES / FIXES - April 27, 2012 by Carol~ Moderator

Release Date : 2012-04-27

Criticality level : Less critical
Impact : Cross Site Scripting
Where : From remote
Solution Status : Unpatched

Software: Car Portal 3.x

Description:
the_storm has reported a vulnerability in Car Portal CMS, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site request forgery attacks.

The application allows users to perform certain actions via HTTP requests without performing any validity checks to verify the requests. This can be exploited to e.g. delete user accounts by tricking a logged-in administrator into visiting a malicious web site.

The vulnerability is reported in version 3.0. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Do not browse untrusted sites or follow untrusted links while being logged-in to the application.

Provided and/or discovered by:
the_storm via Vulnerability Laboratory Research.

Original Advisory:
http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=502

http://secunia.com/advisories/49010/