[MajorSecurity SA-068]Anantasoft Gazelle CMS - change admin password via Cross-site Request Forgery

[david.kurz () majorsecurity net]

[MajorSecurity SA-068]Anantasoft Gazelle CMS - change admin password via Cross-site Request Forgery

Details
=======
Product: Anantasoft Gazelle CMS
Security-Risk: high
Remote-Exploit: yes
Vendor-URL: http://www.anantasoft.com
Vendor-Status: informed
Advisory-Status: published

Credits
============
Discovered by: David Vieira-Kurz
http://www.majorsecurity.info/penetrationstest.php

Affected Products:
----------------------------
Anantasoft Gazelle CMS 1.0
Prior versions may also be vulnerable

Introduction
============
"Anantasoft Gazelle CMS is web based content management system." 

More Details
============
We at MajorSecurity have discovered a vulnerability in Anantasoft Gazelle CMS, which can be exploited by malicious 
people to conduct cross-site request forgery attacks.
The application allows users to perform certain actions via HTTP requests without performing any validity checks to 
verify the requests. This can be exploited to change the administrator's password by tricking a logged in administrator 
into visiting a malicious web site.

Solution
================
The web application should implement some validity checks to verify the requests before performing certain actions via 
HTTP requests.

Workaround
================
Do not browse untrusted sites or follow untrusted links while being logged-in to the application.

MajorSecurity
================
MajorSecurity is a German penetrationtesting and security research company which focuses
on web application security. We offer professional penetrationstest, security audits,
source code reviews.