The microweber application allows large characters to insert in the input field "post title" which can allow attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted HTTP request. in microweber/microweber

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Reported on

Mar 12th 2022

Proof of Concept

  1. Go to add post http://site.com/admin/post/create
  2. click on create new post
  3. There will a option called post title
  4. Fill the input field with huge characters, (more than 1 lakh)
  5. Copy the below payload and put it in the input fields and click on continue.
  6. You will see the application accepts large characters and if we will increase the characters then it can lead to Dos.

Download the payload from here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-e-lPMJxO7zBhcZOGKipnqOj3C4ygDGA/view?usp=drivesdk

Video & Image POC:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-L7kp5bmCuxBIEIxaUPu_lmKSOPpSdMU

Patch recemmondation:

  1. The post title input should be limited to 500 characters or max 1000 characters.
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Akshay Ravi modified the report
a year ago
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Bozhidar Slaveykov validated this vulnerability a year ago
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Bozhidar Slaveykov marked this as fixed in 1.2.12 with commit f7acbd a year ago
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