CVE-2024-49290 in Cooked Pro Plugin
Summary
by MITRE • 10/20/2024
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Gora Tech LLC Cooked Pro allows Cross Site Request Forgery.This issue affects Cooked Pro: from n/a before 1.8.0.
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Analysis
by VulDB Data Team • 03/03/2025
The Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerability identified as CVE-2024-49290 resides within the Gora Tech LLC Cooked Pro application, representing a critical security flaw that undermines the application's ability to authenticate and validate user requests. This vulnerability specifically affects versions prior to 1.8.0 of the Cooked Pro software, creating a persistent risk for users who remain on older iterations of the platform. The flaw enables malicious actors to exploit the application's lack of proper request validation mechanisms, potentially allowing unauthorized actions to be executed on behalf of authenticated users without their knowledge or consent.
This CSRF vulnerability operates by tricking authenticated users into executing unintended actions through maliciously crafted requests that leverage the user's existing session credentials. The technical implementation appears to lack proper anti-CSRF token validation or session management controls that would normally prevent such attacks. According to CWE-352, this vulnerability maps directly to Cross-Site Request Forgery, where the application fails to validate that requests originate from legitimate sources within the same origin. The absence of anti-CSRF tokens in critical administrative functions creates an exploitable gap in the application's security architecture that adversaries can readily target.
The operational impact of this vulnerability extends beyond simple data manipulation, potentially enabling attackers to perform administrative actions such as modifying user permissions, deleting content, altering system configurations, or accessing sensitive information. The vulnerability's scope is particularly concerning as it affects the entire Cooked Pro platform, meaning that any authenticated user session could be compromised, regardless of the specific role or access level. This creates a significant risk for organizations relying on the platform for content management, recipe sharing, or collaborative cooking applications where unauthorized modifications could lead to data corruption or unauthorized access to proprietary content.
Security practitioners should consider this vulnerability in the context of the MITRE ATT&CK framework, specifically mapping it to technique T1531 for 'Modify System Image' and T1078 for 'Valid Accounts' as attackers could leverage compromised sessions to execute persistent modifications. The vulnerability represents a failure in the application's request integrity validation, which should normally be enforced through the implementation of unique, unpredictable tokens that correlate with user sessions. Organizations should immediately implement mitigations including the deployment of anti-CSRF tokens for all state-changing operations, enforcement of proper origin validation headers, and implementation of SameSite cookie attributes. Additionally, the recommended remediation involves upgrading to Cooked Pro version 1.8.0 or later, which should include comprehensive CSRF protection mechanisms and proper session management controls. Regular security assessments and penetration testing should be conducted to verify the effectiveness of implemented mitigations, while user education regarding suspicious requests and the importance of maintaining updated software versions remains crucial for overall security posture enhancement.