cPanel WHM interface cross-site request forgery
| cpanel-whminterface-csrf (42306) |  Low Risk |
Description:
cPanel is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the WHM interface. By persuading an authenticated victim with administrative privileges to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could send a malformed HTTP request to create new users, modify permissions, suspend accounts, change passwords, or perform other malicious activities such as cross-site scripting attacks or Web cache poisoning.
Platforms Affected:
- cPanel, cPanel 11.18.3
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of cPanel (11.18.4 or later), available from the cPanel Web site. See References.
Consequences:
Gain Access
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Thu May 08 2008 - 19:03:26 CDT, XSS and CSRF vulnerability on Cpanel 11 at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-05/0123.html.
- cPanel Web site, cPanel - The Leading Control Panel at http://www.cpanel.net/index.html.
- BID-29125: cPanel Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
- CVE-2008-2071: Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the WHM interface 11.15.0 for cPanel 11.18 before 11.18.4 and 11.22 before 11.22.3 allow remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions as cPanel administrators via requests to cpanel/whm/webmail and other unspecified vectors.
- FrSIRT/ADV-2008-1522: cPanel Cross Site Scripting and Request Forgery Vulnerabilities
- SA30166: cPanel Cross-Site Scripting and Request Forgery Vulnerabilities
Reported:
May 08, 2008
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