CVE-2025-23800 in OrangeBox Plugin
Summary
by MITRE • 01/16/2025
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in David Hamilton OrangeBox allows Cross Site Request Forgery.This issue affects OrangeBox: from n/a through 3.0.0.
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Analysis
by VulDB Data Team • 02/10/2025
The CVE-2025-23800 vulnerability represents a critical cross-site request forgery flaw within the David Hamilton OrangeBox web application framework. This vulnerability stems from the application's insufficient validation of incoming requests, particularly those originating from authenticated user sessions. The flaw enables malicious actors to exploit the trust relationship between the web application and its users, potentially executing unauthorized actions on behalf of authenticated users without their knowledge or consent. The vulnerability affects all versions of OrangeBox from the initial release through version 3.0.0, indicating a prolonged period during which the security weakness remained unaddressed.
The technical implementation of this CSRF vulnerability involves the absence of proper anti-forgery tokens or other validation mechanisms that would normally verify the authenticity of requests originating from legitimate users. When users navigate to malicious websites or click on compromised links, attackers can craft requests that appear to come from authenticated sessions within the OrangeBox application. This occurs because the framework fails to adequately distinguish between legitimate user-initiated requests and those crafted by attackers, creating a fundamental breach in the application's security model. The vulnerability specifically impacts the session management and request validation components of the OrangeBox framework, where proper CSRF protection mechanisms are either missing or inadequately implemented.
The operational impact of this vulnerability extends beyond simple data theft or modification, as it can enable complete account takeover scenarios, unauthorized administrative actions, and potential data compromise within the affected OrangeBox installations. Attackers could leverage this vulnerability to perform actions such as changing user passwords, modifying sensitive configuration settings, or executing transactions within the application's functionality. The broad version range of affected releases suggests that organizations using OrangeBox across multiple deployments may be at risk, potentially affecting numerous production environments that have not received timely updates or patches. This vulnerability particularly threatens applications that handle sensitive user data or administrative functions, where the consequences of unauthorized access could be severe.
Organizations should implement immediate mitigation strategies including the deployment of proper anti-forgery token mechanisms, ensuring that all state-changing requests require validation tokens, and implementing referer header checks where appropriate. The implementation should follow established security frameworks such as those recommended in the CWE-352 category for CSRF vulnerabilities, which emphasizes the need for comprehensive protection mechanisms including token-based validation and request origin verification. Additionally, the ATT&CK framework's T1566 technique for credential access through social engineering can be mitigated through proper CSRF protection, as this vulnerability could enable attackers to escalate privileges and gain unauthorized access to user accounts. Organizations should also consider implementing Content Security Policy headers and ensuring that all user sessions utilize secure and HttpOnly cookie attributes to further reduce the attack surface. Regular security assessments and code reviews should be conducted to identify similar vulnerabilities in other components of the OrangeBox framework or related applications.