CVE-2024-55271
📋 TL;DR
A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in phpgurukul Gym Management System 1.0 allows attackers to trick authenticated users into performing unintended profile updates. This affects all users with access to the User Panel profile functionality. Attackers can exploit this by luring users to malicious websites while logged into the vulnerable system.
💻 Affected Systems
- phpgurukul Gym Management System
📦 What is this software?
⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact
Worst Case
An attacker could modify user profiles to change email addresses, passwords, or other sensitive information, potentially leading to account takeover or privilege escalation.
Likely Case
Attackers trick users into changing their own profile information, which could disrupt operations or enable social engineering attacks.
If Mitigated
With proper CSRF protections, the vulnerability is eliminated and profile updates require explicit user consent.
🎯 Exploit Status
Exploitation requires the victim to be authenticated and visit a malicious page. The GitHub repository contains proof-of-concept code.
🛠️ Fix & Mitigation
✅ Official Fix
Patch Version: Unknown
Vendor Advisory: None known
Restart Required: No
Instructions:
No official patch available. Implement CSRF tokens in profile.php. Add anti-CSRF measures like SameSite cookies and validate requests with unique tokens.
🔧 Temporary Workarounds
Implement CSRF Protection
allAdd CSRF tokens to profile.php form and validate them on submission
Edit profile.php to include CSRF token generation and validation
Use SameSite Cookie Attribute
allSet SameSite=Strict or Lax on session cookies to prevent CSRF
Set session.cookie_samesite = Strict in PHP configuration
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Restrict access to the User Panel to trusted networks only
- Implement web application firewall rules to detect CSRF attempts
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
Check if profile.php endpoint lacks CSRF token validation by inspecting the form and server-side codeCheck Version:
Check system version in admin panel or configuration filesVerify Fix Applied:
Verify that profile.php now includes and validates CSRF tokens on form submission📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- Multiple profile update requests from same user in short time
- Profile updates without corresponding form submissions
Network Indicators:
- HTTP POST requests to /profile.php without Referer header or with external origins
SIEM Query:
source="web_logs" AND uri="/profile.php" AND method="POST" AND (NOT referer CONTAINS "yourdomain.com" OR referer IS NULL)