Mambo 4.6.2/4.6.3 Administrator Account connector.php Command cross-site request forgery
CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Mambo 4.6.2/4.6.3 (Content Management System). Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the file connectors/php/connector.php of the component Administrator Account. The manipulation of the argument Command
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 confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in administrator/index2.php in MOStlyCE before 2.4, as used in Mambo 4.6.3 and earlier, allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that add new administrator accounts via the save task in a com_users action, as demonstrated using a separate XSS vulnerability in mambots/editors/mostlyce/jscripts/tiny_mce/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php.
The weakness was published 01/28/2008 (Website). The advisory is available at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2008-7214 since 09/11/2009. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details as well as a exploit are known.
After even before and not, there has been an exploit disclosed. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. By approaching the search of inurl:connectors/php/connector.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (39985). Similar entries are available at 49971, 49969 and 49968.
Product
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.3VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.0
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Exploiting
Class: Cross-site request forgeryCWE: CWE-352 / CWE-862 / CWE-863
ATT&CK: Unknown
Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Countermeasures
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Timeline
01/28/2008 🔍01/28/2008 🔍
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09/11/2009 🔍
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08/15/2017 🔍
Sources
Advisory: securityfocus.com⛔Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2008-7214 (🔍)
X-Force: 39985
Secunia: 28670 - Mambo Multiple Vulnerabilities, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 42531 - MOStlyCE for Mambo connectors/php/connector.php Command Parameter CSRF
Vupen: ADV-2008-0325
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entry
Created: 03/18/2015 15:15Updated: 08/15/2017 09:24
Changes: 03/18/2015 15:15 (50), 08/15/2017 09:24 (12)
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