Unauthorized administrator promotion via unconfirmed EditProfile request
Published Jan 22, 2020 · Updated Aug 6, 2024
Cross-site request forgery in Electron Inc. Advanced Electron Forum through 1.0.9 allows remote attackers to gain administrator access. The EditProfile administrator action accepts a crafted POST that sets u_member_group to the administrator group without a second step or explicit confirmation. Exploitation requires an authenticated administrator to visit attacker-controlled content; the demonstrated request promotes a normal account to administrator.
Summary
What happened
Cross-site request forgery in Electron Inc. Advanced Electron Forum through 1.0.9 allows remote attackers to gain administrator access. The EditProfile administrator action accepts a crafted POST that sets u_member_group to the administrator group without a second step or explicit confirmation. Exploitation requires an authenticated administrator to visit attacker-controlled content; the demonstrated request promotes a normal account to administrator.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2011-3582
- Published
- Jan 22, 2020
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Vendor
- Electron Inc.
- Product
- Advanced Electron Forum
- Classifications
- T1204.001
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jan 22, 2020CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 6, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=through 1.0.9
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Weakness, pattern, technique
Public exploit references
- AEF EditProfile CSRF proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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