Title: Snowfox CMS v1.0 CSRF Add Admin Exploit
Advisory ID: ZSL-2014-5205
Type: Local/Remote
Impact: Cross-Site Scripting
Risk: (3/5)
Release Date: 18.11.2014

Summary

Snowfox is an open source Content Management System (CMS) that allows your website users to create and share content based on permission configurations.

Description

Snowfox CMS suffers from a cross-site request forgery vulnerabilities. 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.

Vendor

Globiz Solutions - http://www.snowfoxcms.org

Affected Version

1.0

Tested On

Apache/2.4.7 (Win32)
PHP/5.5.6
MySQL 5.6.14

Vendor Status

[20.11.2014] Vendor releases version 1.0.10 to address this issue.

PoC

snowfox_csrf.html

Credits

Vulnerability discovered by Gjoko Krstic - <gjoko@zeroscience.mk>

References

[1] http://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2014110126
[2] http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129164
[3] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71175
[4] http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/35301/
[5] http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/98815
[6] http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/114819
[7] https://github.com/GlobizSolutions/snowfox/releases
[8] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2014-9344
[9] http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-9344

Changelog

[18.11.2014] - Initial release
[19.11.2014] - Added reference [1], [2] and [3]
[20.11.2014] - Added vendor status and reference [4], [5], [6] and [7]
[09.12.2014] - Added reference [8] and [9]

Contact

Zero Science Lab

Web: http://www.zeroscience.mk
e-mail: lab@zeroscience.mk