School Attendance Monitoring System 1.0 /user/user/edit.php cross-site request forgery
| CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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Summary
A vulnerability was found in School Attendance Monitoring System 1.0 and classified as problematic. Impacted is an unknown function of the file /user/user/edit.php. Such manipulation leads to cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2018-18797. The attack can be executed remotely. Additionally, an exploit exists.
Details
A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in School Attendance Monitoring System 1.0. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the file /user/user/edit.php. 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:
School Attendance Monitoring System 1.0 has CSRF via /user/user/edit.php.
The bug was discovered 10/29/2018. The weakness was released 11/16/2018 as EDB-ID 45725 as confirmed exploit (Exploit-DB). The advisory is shared for download at exploit-db.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-18797 since 10/28/2018. 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 public exploit are known.
A public exploit has been developed by Ihsan Sencan and been published even before and not after the advisory. The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 18 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. By approaching the search of inurl:user/user/edit.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 Exploit-DB (45725). Entry connected to this vulnerability is available at VDB-126957. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.
Product
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.6VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.4
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VulDB Temp Score: 4.1
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Exploiting
Class: Cross-site request forgeryCWE: CWE-352 / CWE-862 / CWE-863
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: Ihsan Sencan
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Countermeasures
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Timeline
10/28/2018 🔍10/29/2018 🔍
10/29/2018 🔍
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11/16/2018 🔍
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11/17/2018 🔍
08/03/2025 🔍
Sources
Advisory: EDB-ID 45725Status: Confirmed
CVE: CVE-2018-18797 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2018-18797
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-126956
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entry
Created: 11/17/2018 11:19Updated: 08/03/2025 15:28
Changes: 11/17/2018 11:19 (65), 04/13/2020 18:17 (1), 08/03/2025 15:28 (17)
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Cache ID: 216::103
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