Note deletion via tokenless GET request
Published Mar 27, 2026 · Updated Mar 27, 2026
Cross-site request forgery in SourceCodester Note Taking App 1.0 allows remote attackers to delete an authenticated user's notes. The notes/delete.php endpoint accepts the note id in a state-changing GET request and deletes the matching user-owned note without validating a CSRF token. A victim must remain logged in and visit an attacker-controlled page, which causes the browser to send the request with the victim's session cookie.
Summary
What happened
Cross-site request forgery in SourceCodester Note Taking App 1.0 allows remote attackers to delete an authenticated user's notes. The notes/delete.php endpoint accepts the note id in a state-changing GET request and deletes the matching user-owned note without validating a CSRF token. A victim must remain logged in and visit an attacker-controlled page, which causes the browser to send the request with the victim's session cookie.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-4971
- Published
- Mar 27, 2026
- Updated
- Mar 27, 2026
- Vendor
- Online Computer and Laptop Store Project
- Product
- Note Taking App
- Classifications
- CWE-862, CWE-352, T1204.001
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Mar 27, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 27, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=1.0
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Public exploit references
- GitHub CSRF proof of concept for note deletionproof of concept · demonstrated
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