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Cross-Site Request Forgery occurrences in Ignitedcms
Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in IgnitedCMS v1.0 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information and gain privilege via the component "/admin/profile/save_profile". (2021-08-06, CVE-2020-18694)
index.php/admin/permissions in Ignited CMS through 2017-02-19 allows CSRF to add an administrator. (2019-07-06, CVE-2019-13370)
An issue was discovered in Ignited CMS through 2017-02-19. ign/index.php/admin/pages/add_page allows a CSRF attack to add pages. (2018-08-08, CVE-2018-15203)
Why Cross-Site Request Forgery can be dangerous
The absence of Anti-CSRF tokens may lead to a Cross-Site Request Forgery attack that can result in executing a specific application action as another logged in user, e.g. steal their account by changing their email and password or silently adding a new admin user account when executed from the administrator account.
The attacker may copy one of your web application forms, e.g. email/password change form.
The webpage will contain a form with the exact set of fields as the original application but with input values already provided and the submit button replaced with a Javascript code causing auto-submission. When the page is accessed the form will be immediately submitted and page contents replaced with a valid content or a redirect to your original application.
One of your application users who is already logged in can be then tricked to navigate to such malicious page e.g. by clicking a link in a phishing email, and the pre-populated form content will be submitted to your application like it would be submitted by your user.