Ravens PHP Scripts - Coppermine Photo Gallery Cross-Site Request Forgery

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA34076

VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/34076/

DESCRIPTION: A vulnerability has been discovered in Coppermine Photo Gallery, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site request forgery attacks. This vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.4.20. Other versions may also be affected.

The application allows users to perform certain actions via HTTP requests without performing any validity checks to verify the requests. This can be exploited to e.g. escalate a users' privileges by enticing a logged in administrator to visit a malicious web page.

SOLUTION:Do not visit untrusted web sites while logged on to the application.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: Inphex and StAkeR

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/8114
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/8115