Link Up Gold administrators.php cross-site request forgery

linkupgold-administrators-csrf (54759)

Medium Risk

Description:

Link Up Gold is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the administrators.php script. By persuading an authenticated user to visit a malicious Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to perform cross-site scripting attacks, Web cache poisoning, and other malicious activities.

*CVSS:

Base Score:	3.5
Access Vector:	Network
Access Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	Single
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	Partial
Availability Impact:	None
Temporal Score:	3.3
Exploitability:	High
Remediation Level:	Unavailable
Report Confidence:	Uncorroborated

Consequences:

Gain Access

Remedy:

No remedy available as of May 1, 2013.

References:

• Offensive Security Exploit Database [12-14-2009]: Link Up Gold CSRF - Create Administrator Account .
• Php Web Scripts Web site: Link Up Gold.
• CVE-2009-4349: Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in administration/administrators.php in Link Up Gold 5.0 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that create administrative accounts.
• OSVDB ID: 61017: Link Up Gold Admin Account Creation CSRF
• SA37712: Link Up Gold Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability
• VUPEN/ADV-2009-3532: Link Up Gold Admin Interface Cross Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

Platforms Affected:

• Php Web Scripts Link Up Gold 5.0

Reported:

Dec 14, 2009

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