Simple PHP Blog add_link.php cross-site request forgery
| simplephpblog-addlink-csrf (37239) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Simple PHP Blog is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the add_link.php script. By sending a specially-crafted email within an IMG tag, a remote attacker could use the delete action with the link_id parameter to delete links and possibly perform cross-site scripting, Web cache poisoning, and other malicious activity, if the attacker could persuade the victim to open the malicious email message and read the comment.
Platforms Affected:
- Alexander Palmo, Simple PHP Blog 0.4.9
Remedy:
No remedy available as of January 2008.
Consequences:
Gain Access
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Wed Oct 17 2007 - 09:00:55 CDT, Multiple CSRF in SimplePHPBlog at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2007-10/0258.html.
- Simple PHP Blog, Simple PHP Blog - Project Homepage at http://www.simplephpblog.com/.
Reported:
Oct 17, 2007
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