[MajorSecurity SA-068]Anantasoft Gazelle CMS - change admin password via Cross-site Request Forgery
Details ======= Product: Anantasoft Gazelle CMS Security-Risk: high Remote-Exploit: yes Vendor-URL: http://www.anantasoft.com Vendor-Status: informed Advisory-Status: published Credits ============ Discovered by: David Vieira-Kurz http://www.majorsecurity.info/penetrationstest.php Affected Products: ---------------------------- Anantasoft Gazelle CMS 1.0 Prior versions may also be vulnerable Introduction ============ "Anantasoft Gazelle CMS is web based content management system." More Details ============ We at MajorSecurity have discovered a vulnerability in Anantasoft Gazelle 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 change the administrator's password by tricking a logged in administrator into visiting a malicious web site. Solution ================ The web application should implement some validity checks to verify the requests before performing certain actions via HTTP requests. Workaround ================ Do not browse untrusted sites or follow untrusted links while being logged-in to the application. MajorSecurity ================ MajorSecurity is a German penetrationtesting and security research company which focuses on web application security. We offer professional penetrationstest, security audits, source code reviews.
