/CVE-2023-37596

CSRF vulnerability in issabel-pbx 4.0.0-6 to delete any user

issabel-pbx 4.0.0-6 - Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) to delete any user

Description: Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in issabel-pbx v.4.0.0-6 allows a remote attacker to make the application not accessible to users by exploiting delete user function in the application.

Vulnerable Product Version: issabel-pbx 4.0.0-6

Date: 10/07/2023

CVE: CVE-2023-37596

CVE Author: Sahil Ojha

Vendor Homepage: https://www.issabel.org/

Software Link: https://github.com/IssabelFoundation/issabelPBX

Tested on: Windows

Attack scenario:
When this CSRF exploit is hosted somewhere and users open or interact with this exploit in his browser with logged in session of issable application, specified user with id like 1,2, etc. will be deleted automatically from the admin panel.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Go to URL: https://{Issabel IP}/index.php?menu=userlist and login with admin credentials.

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  2. Click on delete a user, and attempt to delete the user named ‘”><script>alert(1)</script>”’ and capture the request in burp suite proxy, right click on the request and go to “Engagement Tools --> Generate CSRF PoC”.

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  3. Upon generating the CSRF exploit code shown below, copy the script and save it as html file.

  4. Send this file to the already logged-in user and when the user clicks on submit request, specified user will be deleted as shown in the figure below.

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