CVE-2014-4170: A Privilege Escalation Vulnerability exists in Free Reprintables ArticleFR 11.06.2014 due to insufficient access restrictions in the data.php script, which…

PriorityP265critical9.8CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRNUINSUCHIHAH

EXPLOIT

EPSS

14.48%

96.2th percentile

A Privilege Escalation Vulnerability exists in Free Reprintables ArticleFR 11.06.2014 due to insufficient access restrictions in the data.php script, which could let a remote malicious user obtain access or modify or delete database information.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
freereprintables	articlefr	<= 3.0.4	—

Detection & IOCsextracted from sources · hover to see the quote

urlhttp://[host]/data.php?pk=2&pkf=id&f=membership&value=admin&t=users↗

path/data.php↗

→Alert on unauthenticated GET requests to /data.php containing query parameters targeting the 'users' table (t=users) with membership field manipulation (f=membership&value=admin). ↗

·The vulnerability was still present in versions 3.0.2 and 3.0.4 despite vendor claims of a fix; no official patch was confirmed available at time of disclosure. ↗
·An unofficial patch was developed by High-Tech Bridge and should be evaluated as a mitigation until an official fix is confirmed. ↗

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.19.8CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.07.5HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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