ClickHeat up to 1.14 index.php cross-site request forgery

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in ClickHeat up to 1.14. This affects an unknown function of the file index.php. The manipulation leads to cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2015-4659. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. Moreover, an exploit is present.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in ClickHeat up to 1.14. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the file index.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. The summary by CVE is:

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in ClickHeat 1.14 and earlier allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that change the administrator password via a config action to index.php.

The weakness was disclosed 06/18/2015 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at exploit-db.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2015-4659 since 06/18/2015. The exploitation is known to be easy. 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.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:index.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 databases at Exploit-DB (37266) and SecurityFocus (BID 75300†). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• ClickHeat

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• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13
• 1.14

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