A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Microweber 1.0.7. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file api/save_user. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-352. The web application does not, or can not, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

An issue was discovered in Microweber 1.0.7. There is a CSRF attack (against the admin user) that can add an administrative account via api/save_user.

The bug was discovered 08/31/2018. The weakness was disclosed 09/16/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-17104 since 09/16/2018. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 16 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• 1.0.7

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• open-source

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