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Cross-Site Request Forgery occurrences in Popojicms
Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability exist in PopojiCMS 2.0.1 in po-admin/route.php?mod=user&act=multidelete. (2021-08-25, CVE-2021-28070)
An issue was discovered in PopojiCMS v2.0.1. It has CSRF via the po-admin/route.php?mod=user&act=addnew URI, as demonstrated by adding a level=1 account, a similar issue to CVE-2018-18935. (2019-03-03, CVE-2019-9549)
An issue was discovered in PopojiCMS v2.0.1. admin_component.php is exploitable via the po-admin/route.php?mod=component&act=addnew URI by using the fupload parameter to upload a ZIP file containing arbitrary PHP code (that is extracted and can be executed). This can also be exploited via CSRF. (2018-11-05, CVE-2018-18934)
An issue was discovered in PopojiCMS v2.0.1. It has CSRF via the po-admin/route.php?mod=component&act=addnew URI, as demonstrated by adding a level=1 account. (2018-11-05, CVE-2018-18935)
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.