Cross-site request forgery in Microweber

1) Cross-site request forgery

EUVDB-ID: #VU36694

Risk: High

CVSSv4.0: 6.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-17104

CWE-ID: CWE-352 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of the HTTP request origin. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website, such as add an administrative account via api/save_user.

Mitigation

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

Vulnerable software versions

Microweber: 1.0.7

CPE2.3

• cpe:2.3:a:microweber_cms:microweber:1.0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

External links

https://github.com/microweber/microweber/commit/982ea9d5efb7d2306a05644ebc3469dadb33767e
https://github.com/microweber/microweber/issues/483
https://github.com/microweber/microweber/issues/484

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.